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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tis. By surface analysis, γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡnɔ̂ː.sis/ → /ˈɣno.sis/ → /ˈɣno.sis/
Noun
γνῶσῐς • (gnôsis) f (genitive γνώσεως); third declension
- inquiry
- knowledge
- fame
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “γνῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γνῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γνῶσις 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
- γνῶσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1108 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.