ἔκλυσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐκλύω (eklúō, “set free”) +‎ -σις (-sis, “a suffix added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or process”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /é.kly.sis/ → /ˈe.kly.sis/ → /ˈe.kli.sis/

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

Noun

ἔκλῠσῐς • (éklusis) f (genitive ἐκλύσεως); third declension

1. release, deliverance from a thing
2. weakening of an opponent's case
3. feebleness, faintness
4. laxity of style
5. (music) lowering of the voice through three quarter-tones

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἔκλῠσῐς; τῆς ἐκλῠ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔκλῠσῐς hē éklusis	τὼ ἐκλῠ́σει tṑ eklúsei	αἱ ἐκλῠ́σεις hai eklúseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐκλῠ́σεως tês eklúseōs	τοῖν ἐκλῠσέοιν toîn ekluséoin	τῶν ἐκλῠ́σεων tôn eklúseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐκλῠ́σει têi eklúsei	τοῖν ἐκλῠσέοιν toîn ekluséoin	ταῖς ἐκλῠ́σεσῐ / ἐκλῠ́σεσῐν taîs eklúsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἔκλῠσῐν tḕn éklusin	τὼ ἐκλῠ́σει tṑ eklúsei	τᾱ̀ς ἐκλῠ́σεις tā̀s eklúseis
Vocative	ἔκλῠσῐ éklusi	ἐκλῠ́σει eklúsei	ἐκλῠ́σεις eklúseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• ἔκλυσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔκλυσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἔκλυσις - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “ἔκλυσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • deliverance idem, page 208.
  • discharge idem, page 229.
  • emancipation idem, page 266.
  • freedom idem, page 344.
  • liberation idem, page 488.
  • release idem, page 690.
  • riddance idem, page 713.