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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “to perceive”) + -σῐς (-sĭs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǎi̯s.tʰɛː.sis/ → /ˈɛs.θi.sis/ → /ˈes.θi.sis/
Noun
αἴσθησῐς • (aísthēsĭs) f (genitive αἰσθήσεως); third declension
- Perception from the senses, feeling, hearing, seeing
- Perception by the intellect as well as the senses
- That which is perceived: scent
- Ability to perceive: discernment
- Cognition or discernment of moral discernment in ethical matters
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “αἴσθησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αἴσθησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- αἴσθησις 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
- αἴσθησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G144 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- apprehension idem, page 36.
- consciousness idem, page 162.
- detection idem, page 219.
- discernment idem, page 229.
- feeling idem, page 313.
- grasp idem, page 370.
- grip idem, page 374.
- inkling idem, page 442.
- insight idem, page 444.
- perception idem, page 607.
- sensation idem, page 752.
- sense idem, page 752.
- understanding idem, page 913.