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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʷʰtʰítis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, decrease”). Cognates include Sanskrit क्षिति (kṣíti, “perishing, downfall”) and Latin sitis (“thirst”). By surface analysis, φθίω (phthíō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰtʰí.sis/ → /ˈɸθi.sis/ → /ˈfθi.sis/
Noun
φθῐ́σῐς • (phthísis) f (genitive φθῐ́σεως); third declension
- decline, decay
- atrophy
- consumption (disease), tuberculosis
- waning of the moon
- contraction of the eye
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Further reading
- “φθίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φθίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φθίσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “φθίσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.