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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χόω (khóō, “to throw or heap up”) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰɔ̂ː.sis/ → /ˈxo.sis/ → /ˈxo.sis/
Noun
χῶσῐς • (khôsis) f (genitive χώσεως); third declension
- a heaping up (e.g. of earth); a raising of a mound or bank (e.g. against a city)
- a filling up, blocking by earth thrown in
- embankment
Inflection
Further reading
- “χῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χῶσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.