ὑπόθεσις
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ῠ̔ποτῐ́θημῐ (hupotíthēmi, “I place under, set before, suggest”) + -σῐς (-sis), from ῠ̔πο- (hupo-, “below”) + τῐ́θημῐ (títhēmi, “to put, place”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hy.pó.tʰe.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)yˈpo.tʰe.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /yˈpo.θe.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /yˈpo.θe.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈpo.θe.sis/
Noun
[edit]ῠ̔πόθεσῐς • (hupóthesis) f (genitive ῠ̔ποθέσεως); third declension
- proposal, proposed action; policy, intention
- suggestion, advice
- purpose
- occasion, excuse, pretext
- actor's role
- function, occupation, station
- subject proposed for discussion
- supposition, assumption, hypothesis
- mortgage
- placing under
- base (thing placed under another)
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῠ̔πόθεσῐς hē hupóthesis |
τὼ ῠ̔ποθέσει tṑ hupothései |
αἱ ῠ̔ποθέσεις hai hupothéseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῠ̔ποθέσεως tês hupothéseōs |
τοῖν ῠ̔ποθεσέοιν toîn hupotheséoin |
τῶν ῠ̔ποθέσεων tôn hupothéseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῠ̔ποθέσει têi hupothései |
τοῖν ῠ̔ποθεσέοιν toîn hupotheséoin |
ταῖς ῠ̔ποθέσεσῐ / ῠ̔ποθέσεσῐν taîs hupothésesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῠ̔πόθεσῐν tḕn hupóthesin |
τὼ ῠ̔ποθέσει tṑ hupothései |
τᾱ̀ς ῠ̔ποθέσεις tā̀s hupothéseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῠ̔πόθεσῐ hupóthesi |
ῠ̔ποθέσει hupothései |
ῠ̔ποθέσεις hupothéseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- Greek: υπόθεση f (ypóthesi)
- → Latin: hypothesis (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: гипо́теза f (gipóteza)
Further reading
[edit]- “ὑπόθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑπόθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὑπόθεσις 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.
- assumption idem, page 48.
- basis idem, page 64.
- ground idem, page 375.
- hypothesis idem, page 412.
- matter idem, page 518.
- principle idem, page 641.
- subject idem, page 830.
- substance idem, page 832.
- supposition idem, page 842.
- text idem, page 863.
- view idem, page 951.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις
- Ancient Greek 4-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
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