τίσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kʷítis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷéytis, from *kʷey- (“to pay, avenge”) (whence τίνω (tínō) and τίω (tíō)). By surface analysis, τίω (tíō) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tí.sis/ → /ˈti.sis/ → /ˈti.sis/

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

Noun

τῐ́σῐς • (tísis) f (genitive τῐ́σεως); third declension

1. payment
2. penalty, punishment, atonement, retribution, reward
3. vengeance

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ τῐ́σῐς; τῆς τῐ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τῐ́σῐς hē tísis	τὼ τῐ́σει tṑ tísei	αἱ τῐ́σεις hai tíseis
Genitive	τῆς τῐ́σεως tês tíseōs	τοῖν τῐσέοιν toîn tiséoin	τῶν τῐ́σεων tôn tíseōn
Dative	τῇ τῐ́σει têi tísei	τοῖν τῐσέοιν toîn tiséoin	ταῖς τῐ́σεσῐ / τῐ́σεσῐν taîs tísesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν τῐ́σῐν tḕn tísin	τὼ τῐ́σει tṑ tísei	τᾱ̀ς τῐ́σεις tā̀s tíseis
Vocative	τῐ́σῐ tísi	τῐ́σει tísei	τῐ́σεις tíseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Τισαμενός (Tisamenós)
• Τίσανδρος (Tísandros)
• Τισίας (Tisías)
• Τισικράτης (Tisikrátēs)
• Τισιφόνη (Tisiphónē)

 

Further reading

• “τίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τίσις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τίσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τίσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • amends idem, page 27.
  • atonement idem, page 49.
  • chastisement idem, page 127.
  • compensation idem, page 151.
  • expiation idem, page 294.
  • payment idem, page 600.
  • penalty idem, page 602.
  • punishment idem, page 658.
  • reckoning idem, page 679.
  • redress idem, page 684.
  • reparation idem, page 695.
  • reprisal idem, page 698.
  • requital idem, page 700.
  • retaliation idem, page 706.
  • retribution idem, page 708.
  • revenge idem, page 709.
  • scourge idem, page 741.
  • vengeance idem, page 947.