μετάστασις
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From μεθίστημι (methístēmi, “to place in another way, change”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.tás.ta.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈtas.ta.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈtas.ta.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈtas.ta.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈtas.ta.sis/
Noun
[edit]μετᾰ́στᾰσῐς • (metástasis) f (genitive μετᾰστᾰ́σεως); third declension
- removing, removal
- shifting of blame
- (of place) removal, migration
- (figuratively) departure from life
- (on the stage) exite of the chorus
- (medicine) transference of the seat of disease
- (in general) change
- change of political constitution
- counterrevolution
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μετᾰ́στᾰσῐς hē metástasis |
τὼ μετᾰστᾰ́σει tṑ metastásei |
αἱ μετᾰστᾰ́σεις hai metastáseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μετᾰστᾰ́σεως tês metastáseōs |
τοῖν μετᾰστᾰσέοιν toîn metastaséoin |
τῶν μετᾰστᾰ́σεων tôn metastáseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μετᾰστᾰ́σει têi metastásei |
τοῖν μετᾰστᾰσέοιν toîn metastaséoin |
ταῖς μετᾰστᾰ́σεσῐ / μετᾰστᾰ́σεσῐν taîs metastásesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μετᾰ́στᾰσῐν tḕn metástasin |
τὼ μετᾰστᾰ́σει tṑ metastásei |
τᾱ̀ς μετᾰστᾰ́σεις tā̀s metastáseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | μετᾰ́στᾰσῐ metástasi |
μετᾰστᾰ́σει metastásei |
μετᾰστᾰ́σεις metastáseis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- μεταστατικός (metastatikós)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: μετάσταση (metástasi)
- → Late Latin: metastasis
References
[edit]- “μετάστασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μετάστασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μετάστασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
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