ὀξύτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s, “sharp”) +‎ -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ok.sý.tɛːs/ → /okˈsy.tis/ → /okˈsi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ok.sý.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /okˈsy.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /okˈsy.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /okˈsy.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /okˈsi.tis/

Noun

ὀξῠ́της • (oxŭ́tēs) f (genitive ὀξῠ́τητος); third declension

1. (of angles) sharpness, pointedness
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 56d
     • Plato, Timaeus 61e
2. (of senses) sharpness
   1. (of sound) highness, intensity
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Philebus 17c
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 163c
   2. (of taste, in the plural) pungency, acidity
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Ancient Medicine 19
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Regimen in Acute Diseases 61
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 11.656
   3. (of sight) acuity
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.10.492a4
3. (figurative) cleverness
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 2.31.S.
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Images 17
4. (of motion, action, or occurrence) quickness
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Charmides 160b
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 306c
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 24.95
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pyrrhus 2
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, 15 43.
5. (grammar) oxia (the acute accent)
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Adverbs 138.16
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1456b33
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 399a

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ὀξῠ́της; τῆς ὀξῠ́τητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀξῠ́της hē oxŭ́tēs	τὼ ὀξῠ́τητε tṑ oxŭ́tēte	αἱ ὀξῠ́τητες hai oxŭ́tētes
Genitive	τῆς ὀξῠ́τητος tês oxŭ́tētos	τοῖν ὀξῠτήτοιν toîn oxŭtḗtoin	τῶν ὀξῠτήτων tôn oxŭtḗtōn
Dative	τῇ ὀξῠ́τητῐ têi oxŭ́tētĭ	τοῖν ὀξῠτήτοιν toîn oxŭtḗtoin	ταῖς ὀξῠ́τησῐ / ὀξῠ́τησῐν taîs oxŭ́tēsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀξῠ́τητᾰ tḕn oxŭ́tētă	τὼ ὀξῠ́τητε tṑ oxŭ́tēte	τᾱ̀ς ὀξῠ́τητᾰς tā̀s oxŭ́tētăs
Vocative	ὀξῠ́της oxŭ́tēs	ὀξῠ́τητε oxŭ́tēte	ὀξῠ́τητες oxŭ́tētes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Synonyms

• (oxia, the acute accent): ὀξεῖα (oxeîa)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “sharpness of sound”): βᾰρῠ́της (bărŭ́tēs)
• (antonym(s) of “oxia, the acute accent”): βᾰρῠ́της (bărŭ́tēs)

References

• “ὀξύτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀξύτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀξύτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accent idem, page 5.
  • activity idem, page 10.
  • alertness idem, page 22.
  • briskness idem, page 100.
  • keenness idem, page 467.
  • penetration idem, page 603.
  • quickness idem, page 667.
  • readiness idem, page 675.
  • sharpness idem, page 763.
  • shrillness idem, page 771.
  • smartness idem, page 786.