κατάκλιση
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κατάκλισις (katáklisis) with -ση (-si) ending and possible semantic loan from English decubitus ulcer.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]κατάκλιση • (katáklisi) f (plural κατακλίσεις)
- (learned) lying down, recumbence, recumbency
- (learned, nautical) careening (the act of heaving a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line)
- (medicine) Ellipsis of έλκος κατάκλισης n (élkos katáklisis, “bedsore, decubitus ulcer, pressure sore, pressure ulcer”).
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | κατάκλιση (katáklisi) | κατακλίσεις (kataklíseis) |
| genitive | κατάκλισης (katáklisis) | κατακλίσεων (kataklíseon) |
| accusative | κατάκλιση (katáklisi) | κατακλίσεις (kataklíseis) |
| vocative | κατάκλιση (katáklisi) | κατακλίσεις (kataklíseis) |
Older or formal genitive singular: κατακλίσεως (kataklíseos)
Related terms
[edit]- κατακλίνομαι (kataklínomai)
- κλίση f (klísi)
References
[edit]- ^ κατάκλιση, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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- Greek terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Greek learned borrowings from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms suffixed with -ση
- Greek semantic loans from English
- Greek terms derived from English
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- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek feminine nouns
- el:Medicine
- el:Nautical
- Greek ellipses
- Greek nouns declining like 'δύναμη'