χῶσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χόω (khóō, “to throw or heap up”) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔ̂ː.sis/ → /ˈxo.sis/ → /ˈxo.sis/

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

Noun

χῶσῐς • (khôsĭs) f (genitive χώσεως); third declension

1. a heaping up (e.g. of earth); a raising of a mound or bank (e.g. against a city)
2. a filling up, blocking by earth thrown in
3. embankment

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χῶσῐς; τῆς χώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χῶσῐς hē khôsĭs	τὼ χώσει tṑ khṓsei	αἱ χώσεις hai khṓseis
Genitive	τῆς χώσεως tês khṓseōs	τοῖν χωσέοιν toîn khōséoin	τῶν χώσεων tôn khṓseōn
Dative	τῇ χώσει têi khṓsei	τοῖν χωσέοιν toîn khōséoin	ταῖς χώσεσῐ / χώσεσῐν taîs khṓsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν χῶσῐν tḕn khôsĭn	τὼ χώσει tṑ khṓsei	τᾱ̀ς χώσεις tā̀s khṓseis
Vocative	χῶσῐ khôsĭ	χώσει khṓsei	χώσεις khṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ἀνάχωσις (anákhōsis)
• ἀπόχωσις (apókhōsis)
• διάχωσις (diákhōsis)
• ἔγχωσις (énkhōsis)
• ἐπίχωσις (epíkhōsis)
• κατάχωσις (katákhōsis)
• περίχωσις (períkhōsis)
• πρόσχωσις (próskhōsis)
• πρόχωσις (prókhōsis)
• σύγχωσις (súnkhōsis)

Further reading

• “χῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χῶσις 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.
  • filling up idem, page 320.