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Ancient Greek
Etymology
γεύω (geúō) + -σις (-sis).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡêu̯.sis/ → /ˈʝeɸ.sis/ → /ˈʝef.sis/
Noun
γεῦσῐς • (geûsis) f (genitive γεύσεως); third declension
- sense of taste, tasting
- the action of tasting
- food
- taste, flavor
- back of the tongue
Declension
References
Further reading
- “γεῦσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γεῦσις 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
- γεῦσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G5594 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- “γεῦσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.