φίμωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φῑμόω (phīmóō, “to muzzle”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰǐː.mɔː.sis/ → /ˈɸi.mo.sis/ → /ˈfi.mo.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰǐː.mɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰi.mo.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸi.mo.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.mo.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.mo.sis/

Noun

φῑ́μωσῐς • (phī́mōsis) f (genitive φῑμώσεως); third declension

1. muzzling, silencing of death
2. (medicine) phimosis

Declension

Third declension of ἡ φῑ́μωσῐς; τῆς φῑμώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῑ́μωσῐς hē phī́mōsis	τὼ φῑμώσει tṑ phīmṓsei	αἱ φῑμώσεις hai phīmṓseis
Genitive	τῆς φῑμώσεως tês phīmṓseōs	τοῖν φῑμωσέοιν toîn phīmōséoin	τῶν φῑμώσεων tôn phīmṓseōn
Dative	τῇ φῑμώσει têi phīmṓsei	τοῖν φῑμωσέοιν toîn phīmōséoin	ταῖς φῑμώσεσῐ / φῑμώσεσῐν taîs phīmṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν φῑ́μωσῐν tḕn phī́mōsin	τὼ φῑμώσει tṑ phīmṓsei	τᾱ̀ς φῑμώσεις tā̀s phīmṓseis
Vocative	φῑ́μωσῐ phī́mōsi	φῑμώσει phīmṓsei	φῑμώσεις phīmṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: phimosis
• → Italian: fimosi
• → Spanish: fimosis

Further reading

• “φίμωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φίμωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette