γεῦσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

γεύω (geúō) +‎ -σις (-sis).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡêu̯.sis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡew.sis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈʝeɸ.sis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈʝef.sis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈʝef.sis/

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Noun

γεῦσῐς • (geûsĭs) f (genitive γεύσεως); third declension

sense of taste, tasting
the action of tasting
food
taste, flavor
back of the tongue

Declension

Third declension of ἡ γεῦσῐς; τῆς γεύσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ γεῦσῐς hē geûsĭs	τὼ γεύσει tṑ geúsei	αἱ γεύσεις hai geúseis
Genitive	τῆς γεύσεως tês geúseōs	τοῖν γευσέοιν toîn geuséoin	τῶν γεύσεων tôn geúseōn
Dative	τῇ γεύσει têi geúsei	τοῖν γευσέοιν toîn geuséoin	ταῖς γεύσεσῐ / γεύσεσῐν taîs geúsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν γεῦσῐν tḕn geûsĭn	τὼ γεύσει tṑ geúsei	τᾱ̀ς γεύσεις tā̀s geúseis
Vocative	γεῦσῐ geûsĭ	γεύσει geúsei	γεύσεις geúseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “γεύομαι (> DER > γεῦσις)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 269

“γεῦσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
γεῦσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
γεῦσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
G5594 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
“γεῦσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- flavour idem, page 326.
- taste idem, page 856.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “γεύομαι (> DER > γεῦσις)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 269

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