ἅλωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of ἁλίσκομαι (halískomai) +‎ -ωσις (-ōsis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /há.lɔː.sis/ → /ˈa.lo.sis/ → /ˈa.lo.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /há.lɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)a.lo.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo.sis/

Noun

ἅλωσῐς • (hálōsis) f (genitive ἁλώσεως); third declension

1. capture, conquest

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἅλωσῐς; τῆς ἁλώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἅλωσῐς hē hálōsis	τὼ ἁλώσει tṑ halṓsei	αἱ ἁλώσεις hai halṓseis
Genitive	τῆς ἁλώσεως tês halṓseōs	τοῖν ἁλωσέοιν toîn halōséoin	τῶν ἁλώσεων tôn halṓseōn
Dative	τῇ ἁλώσει têi halṓsei	τοῖν ἁλωσέοιν toîn halōséoin	ταῖς ἁλώσεσῐ / ἁλώσεσῐν taîs halṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἅλωσῐν tḕn hálōsin	τὼ ἁλώσει tṑ halṓsei	τᾱ̀ς ἁλώσεις tā̀s halṓseis
Vocative	ἅλωσῐ hálōsi	ἁλώσει halṓsei	ἁλώσεις halṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: άλωση (álosi)

Further reading

• ἅλωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἅλωσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἅλωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἅλωσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G259 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • capture idem, page 113.
  • fall idem, page 303.
  • sack idem, page 728.
  • taking idem, page 853.