πέψις
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From πέσσω (péssō, “to ripen; cook; digest”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pép.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpep.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpep.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpep.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpep.sis/
Noun edit
πέψῐς • (pépsis) f (genitive πέψεως); third declension
- softening, ripening, or changing by means of heat
- (in general) cooking of food
- (of wine) fermentation
- (medicine) digestion of food
- concoction of acrid humors
- concoction, as a function of the animal organs
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πέψῐς hē pépsis |
τὼ πέψει tṑ pépsei |
αἱ πέψεις hai pépseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πέψεως tês pépseōs |
τοῖν πεψέοιν toîn pepséoin |
τῶν πέψεων tôn pépseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πέψει têi pépsei |
τοῖν πεψέοιν toîn pepséoin |
ταῖς πέψεσῐ / πέψεσῐν taîs pépsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πέψῐν tḕn pépsin |
τὼ πέψει tṑ pépsei |
τᾱ̀ς πέψεις tā̀s pépseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέψῐ pépsi |
πέψει pépsei |
πέψεις pépseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “πέψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- "πέψις" in: The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, edited by: Franco Montanari. Consulted online on 15/06/2020. First published online: July 2015.
- "ἔκπεψις" in DGE en línea
- "πέσσω" in: Chantraine, Pierre (1968) Dictionnaire Etymologique De La Langue Grecque pp.890-1