ἐκτομή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō, “to cut out”) +‎ -η (-ē, verbal noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ek.to.mɛ̌ː/ → /ek.toˈmi/ → /ek.toˈmi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ek.to.mɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ek.toˈme̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ek.toˈmi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ek.toˈmi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ek.toˈmi/

Noun

ἐκτομή • (ektomḗ) f (genitive ἐκτομῆς); first declension

1. a cutting out
   1. castration
2. a segment

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐκτομή; τῆς ἐκτομῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐκτομή hē ektomḗ	τὼ ἐκτομᾱ́ tṑ ektomā́	αἱ ἐκτομαί hai ektomaí
Genitive	τῆς ἐκτομῆς tês ektomês	τοῖν ἐκτομαῖν toîn ektomaîn	τῶν ἐκτομῶν tôn ektomôn
Dative	τῇ ἐκτομῇ têi ektomêi	τοῖν ἐκτομαῖν toîn ektomaîn	ταῖς ἐκτομαῖς taîs ektomaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἐκτομήν tḕn ektomḗn	τὼ ἐκτομᾱ́ tṑ ektomā́	τᾱ̀ς ἐκτομᾱ́ς tā̀s ektomā́s
Vocative	ἐκτομή ektomḗ	ἐκτομᾱ́ ektomā́	ἐκτομαί ektomaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Catalan: -ectomia
• → English: -ectomy
• → Finnish: -ektomia
• → Italian: -ectomia
• → Portuguese: -ectomia
• → Spanish: -ectomía
• ⇒ Translingual: Ectomis

Further reading

• “ἐκτομή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐκτομή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐκτομή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐκτομή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἐκτομή 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • castration idem, page 117.
  • emasculation idem, page 266.