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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐκλύω (eklúō, “set free”) + -σις (-sis, “a suffix added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or process”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /é.kly.sis/ → /ˈe.kly.sis/ → /ˈe.kli.sis/
Noun
ἔκλῠσῐς • (éklusis) f (genitive ἐκλύσεως); third declension
- release, deliverance from a thing
- weakening of an opponent's case
- feebleness, faintness
- laxity of style
- (music) lowering of the voice through three quarter-tones
Declension
Further reading
- ἔκλυσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔκλυσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἔκλυσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἔκλυσις”, 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.