ἔγκλισις
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ἐγκλίνω (enklínō, “to incline”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /éŋ.kli.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈeŋ.kli.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈeŋ.ɡli.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈeŋ.ɡli.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈeŋ.ɡli.sis/
Noun
[edit]ἔγκλῐσῐς • (énklisis) f (genitive ἐγκλῐ́σεως); third declension
- inclination; slope
- defeat, failure
- (medicine) displacement
- (grammar) mood of a verb
- (grammar) throwing back of the accent or change of acute accent to grave accent[1]
- (grammar, generally) inflection of derivative forms
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἔγκλῐσῐς hē énklisis |
τὼ ἐγκλῐ́σει tṑ enklísei |
αἱ ἐγκλῐ́σεις hai enklíseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐγκλῐ́σεως tês enklíseōs |
τοῖν ἐγκλῐσέοιν toîn enkliséoin |
τῶν ἐγκλῐ́σεων tôn enklíseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐγκλῐ́σει têi enklísei |
τοῖν ἐγκλῐσέοιν toîn enkliséoin |
ταῖς ἐγκλῐ́σεσῐ / ἐγκλῐ́σεσῐν taîs enklísesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἔγκλῐσῐν tḕn énklisin |
τὼ ἐγκλῐ́σει tṑ enklísei |
τᾱ̀ς ἐγκλῐ́σεις tā̀s enklíseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἔγκλῐσῐ énklisi |
ἐγκλῐ́σει enklísei |
ἐγκλῐ́σεις enklíseis | ||||||||||
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Related terms
[edit]- ἐγκλῐσῐκός (enklisikós)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ The enclitics of Ancient Greek in Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part I: Letters, Sounds, Syllables, Accent”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 181-186
Further reading
[edit]- “ἔγκλισις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔγκλισις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔγκλισις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
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- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
- grc:Medicine
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