ἄρσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αἴρω (aírō, “raise, lift, elevate”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ár.sis/ → /ˈar.sis/ → /ˈar.sis/

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

Noun

ᾰ̓́ρσῐς • (ársis) f (genitive ᾰ̓́ρσεως); third declension

1. raising, elevation

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓́ρσῐς; τῆς ᾰ̓́ρσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓́ρσῐς hē ársis	τὼ ᾰ̓́ρσει tṑ ársei	αἱ ᾰ̓́ρσεις hai árseis
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓́ρσεως tês árseōs	τοῖν ᾰ̓ρσέοιν toîn arséoin	τῶν ᾰ̓́ρσεων tôn árseōn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓́ρσει têi ársei	τοῖν ᾰ̓ρσέοιν toîn arséoin	ταῖς ᾰ̓́ρσεσῐ / ᾰ̓́ρσεσῐν taîs ársesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓́ρσῐν tḕn ársin	τὼ ᾰ̓́ρσει tṑ ársei	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓́ρσεις tā̀s árseis
Vocative	ᾰ̓́ρσῐ ársi	ᾰ̓́ρσει ársei	ᾰ̓́ρσεις árseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• δῐ́ᾰρσῐς (díarsis)
• ἐξᾰρσῐς (exarsis)
• ἔπᾰρσῐς (éparsis)
• κᾰτέπᾰρσῐς (katéparsis)
• κᾰ́τᾰρσῐς (kátarsis)
• μέτᾰρσῐς (métarsis)
• πρόσᾰρσῐς (prósarsis)
• σῠ́νᾰρσῐς (súnarsis)
• ᾰ̓́πᾰρσῐς (áparsis)
• ῠ̔περέπᾰρσῐς (huperéparsis)
• ῠ̔πέρᾰρσῐς (hupérarsis)

 

References

• “ἄρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄρσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄρσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἄρσις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften