φθίσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kʷʰtʰítis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, decrease”). Cognates include Sanskrit क्षिति (kṣíti, “perishing, downfall”) and Latin sitis (“thirst”). By surface analysis, φθίω (phthíō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰtʰí.sis/ → /ˈɸθi.sis/ → /ˈfθi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰtʰí.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰtʰi.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸθi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfθi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfθi.sis/

Noun

φθῐ́σῐς • (phthísis) f (genitive φθῐ́σεως); third declension

1. decline, decay
2. atrophy
3. consumption (disease), tuberculosis
4. waning of the moon
5. contraction of the eye

Declension

Third declension of ἡ φθῐ́σῐς; τῆς φθῐ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φθῐ́σῐς hē phthísis	τὼ φθῐ́σει tṑ phthísei	αἱ φθῐ́σεις hai phthíseis
Genitive	τῆς φθῐ́σεως tês phthíseōs	τοῖν φθῐσέοιν toîn phthiséoin	τῶν φθῐ́σεων tôn phthíseōn
Dative	τῇ φθῐ́σει têi phthísei	τοῖν φθῐσέοιν toîn phthiséoin	ταῖς φθῐ́σεσῐ / φθῐ́σεσῐν taîs phthísesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν φθῐ́σῐν tḕn phthísin	τὼ φθῐ́σει tṑ phthísei	τᾱ̀ς φθῐ́σεις tā̀s phthíseis
Vocative	φθῐ́σῐ phthísi	φθῐ́σει phthísei	φθῐ́σεις phthíseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φθῐσῐκός (phthisikós)

Descendants

• English: phthisis
• Greek: φθίση (fthísi)

Further reading

• “φθίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φθίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φθίσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “φθίσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • decay idem, page 199.