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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾰ̓ντῐτῐ́θημῐ (antitíthēmi, “to set against”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /an.tí.tʰe.sis/ → /anˈti.θe.sis/ → /anˈdi.θe.sis/
Noun
ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐς • (antíthesis) f (genitive ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεως); third declension
- opposition, resistance
- contradiction
- (rhetoric) antithesis
- (grammar) change or transposition of a letter
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀντίθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀντίθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀντίθεσις 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
- ἀντίθεσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G477 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.