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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ζητέω (zētéō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zdɛ̌ː.tɛː.sis/ → /ˈzi.ti.sis/ → /ˈzi.ti.sis/
Noun
ζήτησῐς • (zḗtēsis) f (genitive ζητήσεως); third declension
- the act of seeking, searching for
- a search
- inquiry, investigation
- question
Declension
Further reading
- ζήτησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ζήτησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζήτησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- G2214 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.
- “ζήτησις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011