πέψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πέσσω (péssō, “to ripen; cook; digest”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pép.sis/ → /ˈpep.sis/ → /ˈpep.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pép.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpep.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpep.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpep.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpep.sis/

Noun

πέψῐς • (pépsis) f (genitive πέψεως); third declension

1. softening, ripening, or changing by means of heat
2. (in general) cooking of food
3. (of wine) fermentation
4. (medicine) digestion of food
5. concoction of acrid humors
6. concoction, as a function of the animal organs

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πέψῐς; τῆς πέψεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πέψῐς hē pépsis	τὼ πέψει tṑ pépsei	αἱ πέψεις hai pépseis
Genitive	τῆς πέψεως tês pépseōs	τοῖν πεψέοιν toîn pepséoin	τῶν πέψεων tôn pépseōn
Dative	τῇ πέψει têi pépsei	τοῖν πεψέοιν toîn pepséoin	ταῖς πέψεσῐ / πέψεσῐν taîs pépsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πέψῐν tḕn pépsin	τὼ πέψει tṑ pépsei	τᾱ̀ς πέψεις tā̀s pépseis
Vocative	πέψῐ pépsi	πέψει pépsei	πέψεις pépseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Pepsis
• → Italian: pepsi

Further reading

• “πέψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πέψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• "πέψις" in: The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, edited by: Franco Montanari. Consulted online on 15/06/2020. First published online: July 2015.
• "ἔκπεψις" in DGE en línea
• "πέσσω" in: Chantraine, Pierre (1968) Dictionnaire Etymologique De La Langue Grecque pp.890-1
• “πέψις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011