νεκυϊσμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

νέκῡς (nékūs, “corpse”) +‎ -ῐσμός (-ismós)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ne.ky.iz.mós/ → /ne.cy.izˈmos/ → /ne.ci.izˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ne.ky.iz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ne.ky.izˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ne.cy.izˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ne.cy.izˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ne.ci.izˈmos/

Noun

νεκῠῐ̈σμός • (nekuïsmós) m (genitive νεκῠῐ̈σμοῦ); second declension

1. a magical rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future

Declension

Second declension of ὁ νεκυϊσμός; τοῦ νεκυϊσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νεκυϊσμός ho nekuïsmós	τὼ νεκυϊσμώ tṑ nekuïsmṓ	οἱ νεκυϊσμοί hoi nekuïsmoí
Genitive	τοῦ νεκυϊσμοῦ toû nekuïsmoû	τοῖν νεκυϊσμοῖν toîn nekuïsmoîn	τῶν νεκυϊσμῶν tôn nekuïsmôn
Dative	τῷ νεκυϊσμῷ tôi nekuïsmôi	τοῖν νεκυϊσμοῖν toîn nekuïsmoîn	τοῖς νεκυϊσμοῖς toîs nekuïsmoîs
Accusative	τὸν νεκυϊσμόν tòn nekuïsmón	τὼ νεκυϊσμώ tṑ nekuïsmṓ	τοὺς νεκυϊσμούς toùs nekuïsmoús
Vocative	νεκυϊσμέ nekuïsmé	νεκυϊσμώ nekuïsmṓ	νεκυϊσμοί nekuïsmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• νέκῠιᾰ (nékuia)

Further reading

• “νεκυϊσμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νεκυϊσμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette