γεῖσον
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
According to Stephanus of Byzantium, a Carian word related to γίσσα (gíssa, “stone”). Furnée compares Georgian ხრეში (xreši, “gravel”) and κίσηρις (kísēris, “pumice stone”). In any case, the word is a loan, either from an Anatolian language or from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡêː.son/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡi.son/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈʝi.son/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈʝi.son/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈʝi.son/
Noun edit
γεῖσον • (geîson) n (genitive γείσου); second declension
- (architecture) projecting part of the roof, cornice
- Synonym: θριγκός (thrinkós)
- coping of a wall
- hem or border of a garment
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ γεῖσον tò geîson |
τὼ γείσω tṑ geísō |
τᾰ̀ γεῖσᾰ tà geîsa | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ γείσου toû geísou |
τοῖν γείσοιν toîn geísoin |
τῶν γείσων tôn geísōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ γείσῳ tôi geísōi |
τοῖν γείσοιν toîn geísoin |
τοῖς γείσοις toîs geísois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ γεῖσον tò geîson |
τὼ γείσω tṑ geísō |
τᾰ̀ γεῖσᾰ tà geîsa | ||||||||||
Vocative | γεῖσον geîson |
γείσω geísō |
γεῖσᾰ geîsa | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “γεῖσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γεῖσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γεῖσον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN