ἐξαίρεσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐξαιρέω (exairéō, “I take out, discharge [cargo], except, bereave [someone] of [something, e.g. life], transcend, claim [someone] as a freeman”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ek.sǎi̯.re.sis/ → /ekˈsɛ.re.sis/ → /ekˈse.re.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ek.sǎi̯.re.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ekˈsɛ.re.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ekˈsɛ.re.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ekˈse.re.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ekˈse.re.sis/

Noun

ἐξαίρεσῐς • (exaíresis) f (genitive ἐξαιρέσεως); third declension

1. a taking out, extraction
2. removal, purgation
3. a way of taking out
4. (rhetoric) taking exception, questioning of (an adversary’s arguments)
   1. (law) translating the Latin exceptiō
5. transcendence
6. a place where cargoes are landed, a wharf
7. (law, in the phrase ἐξαιρέσεως δίκη) action against one who has asserted the free birth of a slave
8. killing

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἐξαίρεσῐς; τῆς ἐξαιρέσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐξαίρεσῐς hē exaíresis	τὼ ἐξαιρέσει tṑ exairései	αἱ ἐξαιρέσεις hai exairéseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐξαιρέσεως tês exairéseōs	τοῖν ἐξαιρεσέοιν toîn exaireséoin	τῶν ἐξαιρέσεων tôn exairéseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐξαιρέσει têi exairései	τοῖν ἐξαιρεσέοιν toîn exaireséoin	ταῖς ἐξαιρέσεσῐ / ἐξαιρέσεσῐν taîs exairésesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐξαίρεσῐν tḕn exaíresin	τὼ ἐξαιρέσει tṑ exairései	τᾱ̀ς ἐξαιρέσεις tā̀s exairéseis
Vocative	ἐξαίρεσῐ exaíresi	ἐξαιρέσει exairései	ἐξαιρέσεις exairéseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: εξαίρεση (exaíresi)
• → Latin: exaeresis
  • → English: exaeresis
  • → Italian: exeresi
  • → Spanish: exéresis

Further reading

• “ἐξαίρεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press