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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From αὔξω (aúxō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǎu̯k.sɛː.sis/ → /ˈaɸk.si.sis/ → /ˈafk.si.sis/
Noun
αὔξησῐς • (aúxēsis) f (genitive αὐξήσεως); third declension
- growth, increase
Declension
Quotations
New Testament,
Epistle to the Colossians 2:19:
- καὶ οὐ κρατῶν τὴν κεφαλήν, ἐξ οὗ πᾶν τὸ σῶμα, διὰ τῶν ἁφῶν καὶ συνδέσμων ἐπιχορηγούμενον καὶ συμβιβαζόμενον, αὔξει τὴν αὔξησιν τοῦ Θεοῦ.
- kaì ou kratôn tḕn kephalḗn, ex hoû pân tò sôma, dià tôn haphôn kaì sundésmōn epikhorēgoúmenon kaì sumbibazómenon, aúxei tḕn aúxēsin toû Theoû.
- Translation by KJV
- And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Descendants
Further reading
- αὔξησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὔξησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “αὔξησις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “αὔξησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G838 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.
- advancement idem, page 14.
- aggrandisement idem, page 18.
- augmentation idem, page 52.
- development idem, page 220.
- enhancement idem, page 275.
- enlargement idem, page 275.
- expansion idem, page 292.
- growth idem, page 376.
- increase idem, page 430.
- multiplication idem, page 546.
- rise idem, page 717.