κατάκλιση
Greek
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek κατάκλισις (katáklisis) with -ση (-si) ending and possible semantic loan from English decubitus ulcer.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editκατάκλιση • (katáklisi) f (plural κατακλίσεις)
- (learned) lying down, recumbence, recumbency
- (learned, nautical) careening (the act of heaving a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line)
- (medicine) Ellipsis of έλκος κατάκλισης n (élkos katáklisis, “bedsore, decubitus ulcer, pressure sore, pressure ulcer”).
Declension
editDeclension of κατάκλιση
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | κατάκλιση • | κατακλίσεις • | |
| genitive | κατάκλισης • | κατακλίσεων • | |
| accusative | κατάκλιση • | κατακλίσεις • | |
| vocative | κατάκλιση • | κατακλίσεις • | |
| Older or formal genitive singular: κατακλίσεως • | |||
Related terms
edit- κατακλίνομαι (kataklínomai)
- κλίση f (klísi)
References
edit- ^ κατάκλιση, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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- Greek terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Greek learned borrowings from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms suffixed with -ση
- Greek semantic loans from English
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- Greek lemmas
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- el:Medicine
- el:Nautical
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