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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō) + -σις (-sis)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sýl.lɛːp.sis/ → /ˈsyl.lip.sis/ → /ˈsi.lip.sis/
Noun
σύλληψῐς • (súllēpsis) f (genitive συλλήψεως); third declension
- (the act of) seizing, arresting
- conception
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- σύλληψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “σύλληψις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “σύλληψις”, 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.