τείχισμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τειχίζω (teikhízō, “build a wall, fortify”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /těː.kʰiz.ma/ → /ˈti.çiz.ma/ → /ˈti.çiz.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /těː.kʰiz.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈti.kʰiz.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.çiz.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.çiz.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.çiz.ma/

Noun

τείχῐσμᾰ • (teíkhisma) n (genitive τειχῐ́σμᾰτος); third declension

1. wall, fort, fortification
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 1096
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.8.115

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ τείχῐσμᾰ; τοῦ τειχῐ́σμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τείχῐσμᾰ tò teíkhisma	τὼ τειχῐ́σμᾰτε tṑ teikhísmate	τᾰ̀ τειχῐ́σμᾰτᾰ tà teikhísmata
Genitive	τοῦ τειχῐ́σμᾰτος toû teikhísmatos	τοῖν τειχῐσμᾰ́τοιν toîn teikhismátoin	τῶν τειχῐσμᾰ́των tôn teikhismátōn
Dative	τῷ τειχῐ́σμᾰτῐ tôi teikhísmati	τοῖν τειχῐσμᾰ́τοιν toîn teikhismátoin	τοῖς τειχῐ́σμᾰσῐ / τειχῐ́σμᾰσῐν toîs teikhísmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ τείχῐσμᾰ tò teíkhisma	τὼ τειχῐ́σμᾰτε tṑ teikhísmate	τᾰ̀ τειχῐ́σμᾰτᾰ tà teikhísmata
Vocative	τείχῐσμᾰ teíkhisma	τειχῐ́σμᾰτε teikhísmate	τειχῐ́σμᾰτᾰ teikhísmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “τείχισμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τείχισμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τείχισμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • defence idem, page 204.
  • entrenchment idem, page 278.
  • fort idem, page 339.