αὔξησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αὔξω (aúxō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ǎu̯k.sɛː.sis/ → /ˈaɸk.si.sis/ → /ˈafk.si.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ǎu̯k.sɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈaʍk.se̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈaɸk.si.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈafk.si.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈafk.si.sis/

Noun

αὔξησῐς • (aúxēsĭs) f (genitive αὐξήσεως); third declension

1. growth, increase

Declension

Third declension of ἡ αὔξησῐς; τῆς αὐξήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αὔξησῐς hē aúxēsĭs	τὼ αὐξήσει tṑ auxḗsei	αἱ αὐξήσεις hai auxḗseis
Genitive	τῆς αὐξήσεως tês auxḗseōs	τοῖν αὐξησέοιν toîn auxēséoin	τῶν αὐξήσεων tôn auxḗseōn
Dative	τῇ αὐξήσει têi auxḗsei	τοῖν αὐξησέοιν toîn auxēséoin	ταῖς αὐξήσεσῐ / αὐξήσεσῐν taîs auxḗsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν αὔξησῐν tḕn aúxēsĭn	τὼ αὐξήσει tṑ auxḗsei	τᾱ̀ς αὐξήσεις tā̀s auxḗseis
Vocative	αὔξησῐ aúxēsĭ	αὐξήσει auxḗsei	αὐξήσεις auxḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

• New Testament, Epistle to the Colossians 2:19:

  καὶ οὐ κρατῶν τὴν κεφαλήν, ἐξ οὗ πᾶν τὸ σῶμα, διὰ τῶν ἁφῶν καὶ συνδέσμων ἐπιχορηγούμενον καὶ συμβιβαζόμενον, αὔξει τὴν αὔξησιν τοῦ Θεοῦ.

  kaì ou kratôn tḕn kephalḗn, ex hoû pân tò sôma, dià tôn haphôn kaì sundésmōn epikhorēgoúmenon kaì sumbibazómenon, aúxei tḕn aúxēsin toû Theoû.

  • Translation by KJV

    And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

Descendants

• Greek: αύξηση (áfxisi)
• → English: auxesis

Further reading

• αὔξησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὔξησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “αὔξησις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “αὔξησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G838 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • advancement idem, page 14.
  • aggrandisement idem, page 18.
  • augmentation idem, page 52.
  • development idem, page 220.
  • enhancement idem, page 275.
  • enlargement idem, page 275.
  • expansion idem, page 292.
  • growth idem, page 376.
  • increase idem, page 430.
  • multiplication idem, page 546.
  • rise idem, page 717.