κατήχησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κατηχέω (katēkhéō) +‎ -σις (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tɛ̌ː.kʰɛː.sis/ → /kaˈti.çi.sis/ → /kaˈti.çi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tɛ̌ː.kʰɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈte̝.kʰe̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈti.çi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈti.çi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈti.çi.sis/

Noun

κᾰτήχησῐς • (katḗkhēsis) f (genitive κᾰτηχήσεως); third declension

1. instruction, especially oral
2. communication

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κᾰτήχησῐς; τῆς κᾰτηχήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰτήχησῐς hē katḗkhēsis	τὼ κᾰτηχήσει tṑ katēkhḗsei	αἱ κᾰτηχήσεις hai katēkhḗseis
Genitive	τῆς κᾰτηχήσεως tês katēkhḗseōs	τοῖν κᾰτηχησέοιν toîn katēkhēséoin	τῶν κᾰτηχήσεων tôn katēkhḗseōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰτηχήσει têi katēkhḗsei	τοῖν κᾰτηχησέοιν toîn katēkhēséoin	ταῖς κᾰτηχήσεσῐ / κᾰτηχήσεσῐν taîs katēkhḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰτήχησῐν tḕn katḗkhēsin	τὼ κᾰτηχήσει tṑ katēkhḗsei	τᾱ̀ς κᾰτηχήσεις tā̀s katēkhḗseis
Vocative	κᾰτήχησῐ katḗkhēsi	κᾰτηχήσει katēkhḗsei	κᾰτηχήσεις katēkhḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κατηχίζω (katēkhízō)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Belarusian: катэхі́зіс (katexízis)
• → Latin: catēchēsis (see there for further descendants)
• → Macedonian: катихи́зис (katihízis)
• → Romanian: catihis
• → Russian: катехи́зис (katexízis)
• → Ukrainian: катехі́зис (katexízys)

Further reading

• κατήχησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κατήχησις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “κατήχησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press