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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”) + -σις (-sis), although it could either have been formed in Greek or go back earlier. In the latter case, would be from a Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis, from *dʰeh₁- (root of τίθημι (títhēmi)). Cognates include Sanskrit अपिहिति (ápihiti), Avestan 𐬀𐬭𐬋𐬌𐬛𐬍𐬙𐬌 (arōidīti), Latin conditiō, and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐌴𐌸𐍃 (gadēþs). More at deed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰé.sis/ → /ˈθe.sis/ → /ˈθe.sis/
Noun
θέσῐς • (thésis) f (genitive θέσεως); third declension
- a setting, placement, arrangement
- deposit
- adoption (of a child)
- adoption (in the more general sense of accepting as one's own)
- (philosophy) position, conclusion, thesis
- (dance) putting down the foot
- (metre) the last half of the foot
- (rhetoric) affirmation
- (grammar) stop
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Latin: thesis (see there for further descendants)
References
- “θέσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θέσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θέσις 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
- “θέσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- θέσις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- assumption idem, page 48.
- caution idem, page 119.
- deposit idem, page 212.
- earnest idem, page 259.
- hypothesis idem, page 412.
- place idem, page 616.
- position idem, page 628.
- site idem, page 779.
- situation idem, page 780.
- station idem, page 813.
- supposition idem, page 842.
- thesis idem, page 865.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN