μετάθεσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μετα- (meta-) +‎ θέσις (thésis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.tá.tʰe.sis/ → /meˈta.θe.sis/ → /meˈta.θe.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.tá.tʰe.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /meˈta.tʰe.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /meˈta.θe.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /meˈta.θe.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /meˈta.θe.sis/

Noun

μετάθεσῐς • (metáthesis) f (genitive μεταθέσεως); third declension

1. transposition
2. change of sides or opinions, amendment
3. power of changing

Declension

Third declension of ἡ μετάθεσῐς; τῆς μεταθέσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μετάθεσῐς hē metáthesis	τὼ μεταθέσει tṑ metathései	αἱ μεταθέσεις hai metathéseis
Genitive	τῆς μεταθέσεως tês metathéseōs	τοῖν μεταθεσέοιν toîn metatheséoin	τῶν μεταθέσεων tôn metathéseōn
Dative	τῇ μεταθέσει têi metathései	τοῖν μεταθεσέοιν toîn metatheséoin	ταῖς μεταθέσεσῐ / μεταθέσεσῐν taîs metathésesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν μετάθεσῐν tḕn metáthesin	τὼ μεταθέσει tṑ metathései	τᾱ̀ς μεταθέσεις tā̀s metathéseis
Vocative	μετάθεσῐ metáthesi	μεταθέσει metathései	μεταθέσεις metathéseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

• New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 7:12:

  μετατιθεμένης γὰρ τῆς ἱερωσύνης, ἐξ ἀνάγκης καὶ νόμου μετάθεσις γίνεται.

  metatitheménēs gàr tês hierōsúnēs, ex anánkēs kaì nómou metáthesis gínetai.

  • Translation by KJV

    For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Danish: metatese
• → Dutch: metathese
• → English: metathesis
  • → Malay: metatesis
• → French: métathèse
• → German: Metathese
• → Portuguese: metátese
• → Romanian: metateză
• → Spanish: metátesis
• → Polish: metateza
• → Serbo-Croatian: metateza

Further reading

• μετάθεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μετάθεσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “μετάθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G3331 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.
  • transposition idem, page 889.