ἀντίπτωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀντι- (anti-) +‎ πτῶσις (ptôsis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.típ.tɔː.sis/ → /anˈtip.to.sis/ → /anˈdip.to.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.típ.tɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /anˈtip.to.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /anˈtip.to.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /anˈtip.to.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /anˈdip.to.sis/

Noun

ᾰ̓ντῐ́πτωσῐς • (antíptōsis) f (genitive ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσεως or ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσιος); third declension

1. opposition, resistance
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Decorum 3
2. (grammar) interchange or substitution of cases, antiptosis
   • Priscian., Inst. 17.155
   • Sch.Ar., V. 135
   • Sch.Hes., Th. 528
   • Tz., Ex. 85
   • Seru. 4.416.15
   • Seru. 4.498.18
   • Sch.Th. 1.6

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓ντῐ́πτωσῐς; τῆς ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓ντῐ́πτωσῐς hē antíptōsis	τὼ ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσει tṑ antiptṓsei	αἱ ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσεις hai antiptṓseis
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσεως tês antiptṓseōs	τοῖν ᾰ̓ντῐπτωσέοιν toîn antiptōséoin	τῶν ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσεων tôn antiptṓseōn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσει têi antiptṓsei	τοῖν ᾰ̓ντῐπτωσέοιν toîn antiptōséoin	ταῖς ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσεσῐ / ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσεσῐν taîs antiptṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓ντῐ́πτωσῐν tḕn antíptōsin	τὼ ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσει tṑ antiptṓsei	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσεις tā̀s antiptṓseis
Vocative	ᾰ̓ντῐ́πτωσῐ antíptōsi	ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσει antiptṓsei	ᾰ̓ντῐπτώσεις antiptṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: antiptosis

References

• “ἀντίπτωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀντίπτωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀντίπτωσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἀντίπτωσις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften