ὀξυτόνησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀξυτονέω (oxutonéō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ok.sy.tó.nɛː.sis/ → /ok.syˈto.ni.sis/ → /ok.siˈto.ni.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ok.sy.tó.nɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ok.syˈto.ne̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ok.syˈto.ni.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ok.syˈto.ni.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ok.siˈto.ni.sis/

Noun

ὀξυτόνησις • (oxutónēsis) f (genitive ὀξυτονήσεως); third declension

1. a pronouncing with an acute accent

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὀξῠτόνησῐς; τῆς ὀξῠτονήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀξῠτόνησῐς hē oxŭtónēsĭs	τὼ ὀξῠτονήσει tṑ oxŭtonḗsei	αἱ ὀξῠτονήσεις hai oxŭtonḗseis
Genitive	τῆς ὀξῠτονήσεως tês oxŭtonḗseōs	τοῖν ὀξῠτονησέοιν toîn oxŭtonēséoin	τῶν ὀξῠτονήσεων tôn oxŭtonḗseōn
Dative	τῇ ὀξῠτονήσει têi oxŭtonḗsei	τοῖν ὀξῠτονησέοιν toîn oxŭtonēséoin	ταῖς ὀξῠτονήσεσῐ / ὀξῠτονήσεσῐν taîs oxŭtonḗsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀξῠτόνησῐν tḕn oxŭtónēsĭn	τὼ ὀξῠτονήσει tṑ oxŭtonḗsei	τᾱ̀ς ὀξῠτονήσεις tā̀s oxŭtonḗseis
Vocative	ὀξῠτόνησῐ oxŭtónēsĭ	ὀξῠτονήσει oxŭtonḗsei	ὀξῠτονήσεις oxŭtonḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: oxytonesis

References

• “ὀξυτόνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀξυτόνησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὀξυτόνησις 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