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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μετα- (meta-) + θέσις (thésis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.tá.tʰe.sis/ → /meˈta.θe.sis/ → /meˈta.θe.sis/
Noun
μετάθεσῐς • (metáthesis) f (genitive μεταθέσεως); third declension
- transposition
- change of sides or opinions, amendment
- power of changing
Declension
Quotations
New Testament,
Epistle to the Hebrews 7:12:
- μετατιθεμένης γὰρ τῆς ἱερωσύνης, ἐξ ἀνάγκης καὶ νόμου μετάθεσις γίνεται.
- metatitheménēs gàr tês hierōsúnēs, ex anánkēs kaì nómou metáthesis gínetai.
- Translation by KJV
- For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Descendants
Further reading
- μετάθεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μετάθεσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μετάθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G3331 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.