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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From αἴρω (aírō, “raise, lift, elevate”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ár.sis/ → /ˈar.sis/ → /ˈar.sis/
Noun
ᾰ̓́ρσῐς • (ársis) f (genitive ᾰ̓́ρσεως); third declension
- raising, elevation
Inflection
References
- “ἄρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄρσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄρσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἄρσις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften