χάλασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χαλάω (khaláō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰá.la.sis/ → /ˈxa.la.sis/ → /ˈxa.la.sis/

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

Noun

χᾰ́λᾰσις • (khálasis) f (genitive χᾰλᾰ́σεως); third declension

1. relaxation, slackening, loosening

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χᾰ́λᾰσῐς; τῆς χᾰλᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χᾰ́λᾰσῐς hē khálasis	τὼ χᾰλᾰ́σει tṑ khalásei	αἱ χᾰλᾰ́σεις hai khaláseis
Genitive	τῆς χᾰλᾰ́σεως tês khaláseōs	τοῖν χᾰλᾰσέοιν toîn khalaséoin	τῶν χᾰλᾰ́σεων tôn khaláseōn
Dative	τῇ χᾰλᾰ́σει têi khalásei	τοῖν χᾰλᾰσέοιν toîn khalaséoin	ταῖς χᾰλᾰ́σεσῐ / χᾰλᾰ́σεσῐν taîs khalásesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χᾰ́λᾰσῐν tḕn khálasin	τὼ χᾰλᾰ́σει tṑ khalásei	τᾱ̀ς χᾰλᾰ́σεις tā̀s khaláseis
Vocative	χᾰ́λᾰσῐ khálasi	χᾰλᾰ́σει khalásei	χᾰλᾰ́σεις khaláseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “χάλασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χάλασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χάλασις 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.
  • loosening idem, page 500.
  • relaxation idem, page 690.
  • slackening idem, page 782.