Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἵρεσις (haíresis).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

haeresis f (genitive haeresis or haereseōs or haeresios); third declension

  1. sect
  2. heresy

Declension edit

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative haeresis haeresēs
haereseis
Genitive haeresis
haereseōs
haeresios
haeresium
Dative haeresī haeresibus
haeresesi1
Accusative haeresim
haeresin
haeresem2
haeresēs
haeresīs
Ablative haeresī
haerese
haeresibus
haeresesi1
Vocative haeresis
haeresi
haeresēs
haereseis

1Primarily in poetry.
2Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • haeresis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • haeresis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • haeresis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • haeresis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • haeresis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016