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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From διώκω (diṓkō) + -σις (-sis)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dí.ɔːk.sis/ → /ˈði.ok.sis/ → /ˈði.ok.sis/
Noun
δίωξῐς • (díōxis) f (genitive δῐώξεως); third declension
- chase, pursuit
- (law) prosecution
Declension
Further reading
- δίωξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δίωξις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “δίωξις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “δίωξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.