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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μορφόω (morphóō, “to form”) + -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mór.pʰɔː.sis/ → /ˈmor.ɸo.sis/ → /ˈmor.fo.sis/
Noun
μόρφωσις • (mórphōsis) f (genitive μορφώσεως); third declension
- shaping
- form, semblance
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “μόρφωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μόρφωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μόρφωσις 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
- G3446 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible