σκέψις
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “to consider”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skép.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈskep.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈscep.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈscep.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈscep.sis/
Noun
editσκέψῐς • (sképsis) f (genitive σκέψεως); third declension
- viewing, sensory perception, observation
- examination, speculation, consideration
- 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus, David Kovacs (ed.), lines 1320-1324.
- σὺ δ᾽ ἔν τ᾽ ἐκείνῳ κἀν ἐμοὶ φαίνῃ κακός, / ὃς οὔτε πίστιν οὔτε μάντεων ὄπα / ἔμεινας, οὐκ ἤλεγξας, οὐ χρόνῳ μακρῷ / σκέψιν παρέσχες, ἀλλὰ θᾶσσον ἤ σ᾽ ἐχρῆν / ἀρὰς ἀφῆκας παιδὶ καὶ κατέκτανες.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus, David Kovacs (ed.), lines 1320-1324.
- (philosophy, chiefly Scepticism) doubt, hesitation
- (politics) resolution, decree
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σκέψῐς hē sképsis |
τὼ σκέψει tṑ sképsei |
αἱ σκέψεις hai sképseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σκέψεως tês sképseōs |
τοῖν σκεψέοιν toîn skepséoin |
τῶν σκέψεων tôn sképseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σκέψει têi sképsei |
τοῖν σκεψέοιν toîn skepséoin |
ταῖς σκέψεσῐ / σκέψεσῐν taîs sképsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σκέψῐν tḕn sképsin |
τὼ σκέψει tṑ sképsei |
τᾱ̀ς σκέψεις tā̀s sképseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκέψῐ sképsi |
σκέψει sképsei |
σκέψεις sképseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
editReferences
edit- “σκέψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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