ὁμοίωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὁμοιόω (homoióō, “to make like, to be like”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.mǒi̯.ɔː.sis/ → /oˈmy.o.sis/ → /oˈmi.o.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.mǒi̯.ɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)oˈmy.o.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈmy.o.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈmy.o.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈmi.o.sis/

Noun

ὁμοίωσῐς • (homoíōsĭs) f (genitive ὁμοιώσεως); third declension

1. likeness, resemblance

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ὁμοίωσῐς; τῆς ὁμοιώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὁμοίωσῐς hē homoíōsĭs	τὼ ὁμοιώσει tṑ homoiṓsei	αἱ ὁμοιώσεις hai homoiṓseis
Genitive	τῆς ὁμοιώσεως tês homoiṓseōs	τοῖν ὁμοιωσέοιν toîn homoiōséoin	τῶν ὁμοιώσεων tôn homoiṓseōn
Dative	τῇ ὁμοιώσει têi homoiṓsei	τοῖν ὁμοιωσέοιν toîn homoiōséoin	ταῖς ὁμοιώσεσῐ / ὁμοιώσεσῐν taîs homoiṓsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὁμοίωσῐν tḕn homoíōsĭn	τὼ ὁμοιώσει tṑ homoiṓsei	τᾱ̀ς ὁμοιώσεις tā̀s homoiṓseis
Vocative	ὁμοίωσῐ homoíōsĭ	ὁμοιώσει homoiṓsei	ὁμοιώσεις homoiṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: ομοίωση (omoíosi), ομοίωσιν (omoíosin) (learned)

References

• “ὁμοίωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὁμοίωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὁμοίωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3669 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • approximation idem, page 37.
  • assimilation idem, page 46.