μόρφωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μορφόω (morphóō, “to form”) +‎ -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mór.pʰɔː.sis/ → /ˈmor.ɸo.sis/ → /ˈmor.fo.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mór.pʰɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.pʰo.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ɸo.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.fo.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.fo.sis/

Noun

μόρφωσις • (mórphōsis) f (genitive μορφώσεως); third declension

1. shaping
2. form, semblance

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ μόρφωσῐς; τῆς μορφώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μόρφωσῐς hē mórphōsis	τὼ μορφώσει tṑ morphṓsei	αἱ μορφώσεις hai morphṓseis
Genitive	τῆς μορφώσεως tês morphṓseōs	τοῖν μορφωσέοιν toîn morphōséoin	τῶν μορφώσεων tôn morphṓseōn
Dative	τῇ μορφώσει têi morphṓsei	τοῖν μορφωσέοιν toîn morphōséoin	ταῖς μορφώσεσῐ / μορφώσεσῐν taîs morphṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν μόρφωσῐν tḕn mórphōsin	τὼ μορφώσει tṑ morphṓsei	τᾱ̀ς μορφώσεις tā̀s morphṓseis
Vocative	μόρφωσῐ mórphōsi	μορφώσει morphṓsei	μορφώσεις morphṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: morphosis
• Greek: μόρφωση (mórfosi)

References

• “μόρφωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μόρφωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μόρφωσις 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
• G3446 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible