τμῆσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis, verbal noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tmɛ̂ː.sis/ → /ˈtmi.sis/ → /ˈtmi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tmɛ̂ː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtme̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtmi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtmi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtmi.sis/

Noun

τμῆσῐς • (tmêsis) f (genitive τμήσεως); third declension

1. cutting

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ τμῆσῐς; τῆς τμήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τμῆσῐς hē tmêsis	τὼ τμήσει tṑ tmḗsei	αἱ τμήσεις hai tmḗseis
Genitive	τῆς τμήσεως tês tmḗseōs	τοῖν τμησέοιν toîn tmēséoin	τῶν τμήσεων tôn tmḗseōn
Dative	τῇ τμήσει têi tmḗsei	τοῖν τμησέοιν toîn tmēséoin	ταῖς τμήσεσῐ / τμήσεσῐν taîs tmḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν τμῆσῐν tḕn tmêsin	τὼ τμήσει tṑ tmḗsei	τᾱ̀ς τμήσεις tā̀s tmḗseis
Vocative	τμῆσῐ tmêsi	τμήσει tmḗsei	τμήσεις tmḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: тмезис (tmezis)
• → Finnish: tmeesi
• Greek: τμήση (tmísi)
• → Latin: tmēsis
  • → Dutch: tmesis
  • → English: tmesis
  • → French: tmèse
  • → German: Tmesis
  • → Italian: tmesi
  • → Portuguese: tmese
  • → Spanish: tmesis
• → Polish: tmeza
• → Russian: тме́зис (tmézis)
• → Serbo-Croatian: тмеза / tmeza

References

• “τμῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τμῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τμῆσις 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.
  • devastation idem, page 220.
  • pillage idem, page 613.
  • ravage idem, page 673.
  • wasting idem, page 965.