ἔνθεσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐντῐ́θημῐ (entíthēmi, “to put in”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /én.tʰe.sis/ → /ˈen.θe.sis/ → /ˈen.θe.sis/

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

Noun

ἔνθεσῐς • (énthesis) f (genitive ἐνθέσεως); third declension

1. putting in, insertion
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 426c:

     ἡ δὲ ἀρχὴ ἀπὸ τοῦ κίειν ξενικὸν δὲ τοὔνομα τοῦτο δ᾽ ἐστὶν ἰέναι. […]· νῦν δὲ ἀπό τε τοῦ ξενικοῦ τοῦ κίειν καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ ἦτα μεταβολῆς καὶ τῆς τοῦ νῦ ἐνθέσεως κίνησις κέκληται, ἔδει δὲ κιείνησιν καλεῖσθαι [ἢ εἶσιν].

     The origin [of the word kinesis] is from kiein which is a foreign term and means "to go". […]; now however, from both the foreign nature of the verb kiein and from the change of the letter eta and the insertion of nu, it has been called kinēsis, although it ought to have been called kieinēsis [or kieineisis].

2. anything put in the mouth; mouthful
3. (horticulture) grafting; graft

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἔνθεσῐς; τῆς ἐνθέσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔνθεσῐς hē énthesis	τὼ ἐνθέσει tṑ enthései	αἱ ἐνθέσεις hai enthéseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐνθέσεως tês enthéseōs	τοῖν ἐνθεσέοιν toîn entheséoin	τῶν ἐνθέσεων tôn enthéseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐνθέσει têi enthései	τοῖν ἐνθεσέοιν toîn entheséoin	ταῖς ἐνθέσεσῐ / ἐνθέσεσῐν taîs enthésesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἔνθεσῐν tḕn énthesin	τὼ ἐνθέσει tṑ enthései	τᾱ̀ς ἐνθέσεις tā̀s enthéseis
Vocative	ἔνθεσῐ énthesi	ἐνθέσει enthései	ἐνθέσεις enthéseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐνθετῐκός (enthetikós, adjective)

Descendants

• → English: enthesis

References

• “ἔνθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press