ὅρασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὁράω (horáō) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hó.raː.sis/ → /ˈo.ra.sis/ → /ˈo.ra.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.raː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.ra.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.sis/

Noun

ὅρᾱσῐς • (hórāsĭs) f (genitive ὁρᾱ́σῐος or ὁρᾱ́σεως); third declension

1. seeing, sight
2. a vision
3. appearance

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὅρᾱσῐς; τῆς ὁρᾱ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὅρᾱσῐς hē hórāsĭs	τὼ ὁρᾱ́σει tṑ horā́sei	αἱ ὁρᾱ́σεις hai horā́seis
Genitive	τῆς ὁρᾱ́σεως tês horā́seōs	τοῖν ὁρᾱσέοιν toîn horāséoin	τῶν ὁρᾱ́σεων tôn horā́seōn
Dative	τῇ ὁρᾱ́σει têi horā́sei	τοῖν ὁρᾱσέοιν toîn horāséoin	ταῖς ὁρᾱ́σεσῐ / ὁρᾱ́σεσῐν taîs horā́sesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὅρᾱσῐν tḕn hórāsĭn	τὼ ὁρᾱ́σει tṑ horā́sei	τᾱ̀ς ὁρᾱ́σεις tā̀s horā́seis
Vocative	ὅρᾱσῐ hórāsĭ	ὁρᾱ́σει horā́sei	ὁρᾱ́σεις horā́seis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ἀφόρασις (aphórasis)
• ἐνόρασις (enórasis)
• ἐφόρασις (ephórasis)
• ὁρατικός (horatikós)
• παρόρασις (parórasis)
• προόρασις (proórasis)
• ὑπερόρασις (huperórasis)
• ὑφόρασις (huphórasis)

References

• “ὅρασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὅρασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὅρασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3706 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible