κατάληψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of καταλαμβάνω (katalambánō) +‎ -σις (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tá.lɛːp.sis/ → /kaˈta.lip.sis/ → /kaˈta.lip.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tá.lɛːp.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈta.le̝p.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈta.lip.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈta.lip.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈta.lip.sis/

Noun

κᾰτάληψῐς • (katálēpsis) f (genitive κᾰτᾰλήψεως); third declension

1. (act of) seizing
2. (act of) assaulting
3. (act of) taking possession, occupation

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κᾰτᾰ́ληψῐς; τῆς κᾰτᾰλήψεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰτᾰ́ληψῐς hē katálēpsis	τὼ κᾰτᾰλήψει tṑ katalḗpsei	αἱ κᾰτᾰλήψεις hai katalḗpseis
Genitive	τῆς κᾰτᾰλήψεως tês katalḗpseōs	τοῖν κᾰτᾰληψέοιν toîn katalēpséoin	τῶν κᾰτᾰλήψεων tôn katalḗpseōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰτᾰλήψει têi katalḗpsei	τοῖν κᾰτᾰληψέοιν toîn katalēpséoin	ταῖς κᾰτᾰλήψεσῐ / κᾰτᾰλήψεσῐν taîs katalḗpsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰτᾰ́ληψῐν tḕn katálēpsin	τὼ κᾰτᾰλήψει tṑ katalḗpsei	τᾱ̀ς κᾰτᾰλήψεις tā̀s katalḗpseis
Vocative	κᾰτᾰ́ληψῐ katálēpsi	κᾰτᾰλήψει katalḗpsei	κᾰτᾰλήψεις katalḗpseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀκαταληψία (akatalēpsía)
• προκατάληψις (prokatálēpsis)

Descendants

• → English: catalepsy
• → Finnish: katalepsia
• → French: catalepsie
  • Romanian: catalepsie
  • Spanish: catalepsia
    • → Tagalog: katalépsiyá (learned)
• → Italian: catalessi

Further reading

• κατάληψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κατάληψις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “κατάληψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • occupation idem, page 568.
  • seizure idem, page 750.