ὄρεξις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀρέγω (orégō, “I stretch”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.rek.sis/ → /ˈo.rek.sis/ → /ˈo.rek.sis/

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

Noun

ὄρεξῐς • (órexis) f (genitive ὀρέξεως); third declension

1. yearning, longing, desire, appetite

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὄρεξῐς; τῆς ὀρέξεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄρεξῐς hē órexis	τὼ ὀρέξει tṑ oréxei	αἱ ὀρέξεις hai oréxeis
Genitive	τῆς ὀρέξεως tês oréxeōs	τοῖν ὀρεξέοιν toîn orexéoin	τῶν ὀρέξεων tôn oréxeōn
Dative	τῇ ὀρέξει têi oréxei	τοῖν ὀρεξέοιν toîn orexéoin	ταῖς ὀρέξεσῐ / ὀρέξεσῐν taîs oréxesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὄρεξῐν tḕn órexin	τὼ ὀρέξει tṑ oréxei	τᾱ̀ς ὀρέξεις tā̀s oréxeis
Vocative	ὄρεξῐ órexi	ὀρέξει oréxei	ὀρέξεις oréxeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: όρεξη (órexi)
• Pontic Greek: όρεξη (órexi), όροξη (óroxi), ἐρεξη (ἐrexi), ἐριξη (ἐrixi), ἐροξη (ἐroxi)
  • → Laz: ორექსი (oreksi)

Further reading

• “ὄρεξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄρεξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὄρεξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3715 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible