ἐπίλυσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπιλύω (epilúō, “set free, release”) +‎ -σις (-sis, “a suffix added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or process”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pí.ly.sis/ → /eˈpi.ly.sis/ → /eˈpi.li.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pí.ly.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eˈpi.ly.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈpi.ly.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈpi.ly.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈpi.li.sis/

Noun

ἐπίλῠσῐς • (epílŭsĭs) f (genitive ἐπίλῠσεως); third declension

1. release from, exemption from banishment
2. solution, explanation
3. discharge of a debt
4. spell
5. (medicine) change of dressing

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἐπῐ́λῠσῐς; τῆς ἐπῐλῠ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπῐ́λῠσῐς hē epĭ́lŭsĭs	τὼ ἐπῐλῠ́σει tṑ epĭlŭ́sei	αἱ ἐπῐλῠ́σεις hai epĭlŭ́seis
Genitive	τῆς ἐπῐλῠ́σεως tês epĭlŭ́seōs	τοῖν ἐπῐλῠσέοιν toîn epĭlŭséoin	τῶν ἐπῐλῠ́σεων tôn epĭlŭ́seōn
Dative	τῇ ἐπῐλῠ́σει têi epĭlŭ́sei	τοῖν ἐπῐλῠσέοιν toîn epĭlŭséoin	ταῖς ἐπῐλῠ́σεσῐ / ἐπῐλῠ́σεσῐν taîs epĭlŭ́sesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐπῐ́λῠσῐν tḕn epĭ́lŭsĭn	τὼ ἐπῐλῠ́σει tṑ epĭlŭ́sei	τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐλῠ́σεις tā̀s epĭlŭ́seis
Vocative	ἐπῐ́λῠσῐ epĭ́lŭsĭ	ἐπῐλῠ́σει epĭlŭ́sei	ἐπῐλῠ́σεις epĭlŭ́seis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• ἐπίλυσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐπίλυσις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἐπίλυσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press