χήμωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χήμη (khḗmē, “clam, cockle”) +‎ -ωσῐς (-ōsis, “state, condition”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰɛ̌ː.mɔː.sis/ → /ˈçi.mo.sis/ → /ˈçi.mo.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰɛ̌ː.mɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰe̝.mo.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈçi.mo.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈçi.mo.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈçi.mo.sis/

Noun

χήμωσῐς • (khḗmōsis) f (genitive χημώσεως); third declension

1. (pathology) an affection of the eyes, when the cornea swells like a cockle-shell so as to impede sight

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χήμωσῐς; τῆς χημώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χήμωσῐς hē khḗmōsis	τὼ χημώσει tṑ khēmṓsei	αἱ χημώσεις hai khēmṓseis
Genitive	τῆς χημώσεως tês khēmṓseōs	τοῖν χημωσέοιν toîn khēmōséoin	τῶν χημώσεων tôn khēmṓseōn
Dative	τῇ χημώσει têi khēmṓsei	τοῖν χημωσέοιν toîn khēmōséoin	ταῖς χημώσεσῐ / χημώσεσῐν taîs khēmṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χήμωσῐν tḕn khḗmōsin	τὼ χημώσει tṑ khēmṓsei	τᾱ̀ς χημώσεις tā̀s khēmṓseis
Vocative	χήμωσῐ khḗmōsi	χημώσει khēmṓsei	χημώσεις khēmṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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