τείχισμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τειχίζω (teikhízō, “build a wall, fortify”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /těː.kʰiz.ma/ → /ˈti.çiz.ma/ → /ˈti.çiz.ma/

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

Noun

τείχῐσμᾰ • (teíkhĭsmă) n (genitive τειχῐ́σμᾰτος); third declension

1. wall, fort, fortification
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 1096
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.8.115

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ τείχῐσμᾰ; τοῦ τειχῐ́σμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τείχῐσμᾰ tò teíkhĭsmă	τὼ τειχῐ́σμᾰτε tṑ teikhĭ́smăte	τᾰ̀ τειχῐ́σμᾰτᾰ tằ teikhĭ́smătă
Genitive	τοῦ τειχῐ́σμᾰτος toû teikhĭ́smătos	τοῖν τειχῐσμᾰ́τοιν toîn teikhĭsmắtoin	τῶν τειχῐσμᾰ́των tôn teikhĭsmắtōn
Dative	τῷ τειχῐ́σμᾰτῐ tôi teikhĭ́smătĭ	τοῖν τειχῐσμᾰ́τοιν toîn teikhĭsmắtoin	τοῖς τειχῐ́σμᾰσῐ / τειχῐ́σμᾰσῐν toîs teikhĭ́smăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ τείχῐσμᾰ tò teíkhĭsmă	τὼ τειχῐ́σμᾰτε tṑ teikhĭ́smăte	τᾰ̀ τειχῐ́σμᾰτᾰ tằ teikhĭ́smătă
Vocative	τείχῐσμᾰ teíkhĭsmă	τειχῐ́σμᾰτε teikhĭ́smăte	τειχῐ́σμᾰτᾰ teikhĭ́smătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “τείχισμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τείχισμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τείχισμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • defence idem, page 204.
  • entrenchment idem, page 278.
  • fort idem, page 339.