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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κῑνέω (kīnéō, “I move”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kǐː.nɛː.sis/ → /ˈci.ni.sis/ → /ˈci.ni.sis/
Noun
κῑ́νησῐς • (kī́nēsis) f (genitive κῑνήσεως); third declension
- motion
- dance
- political movement, revolt
- change, revolution
- (grammar) inflection
- (law) punitive action
Inflection
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “motion”): στάσις (stásis)
Descendants
References
- “κίνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κίνησις 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
- G2796 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κίνησις 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- agitation idem, page 19.
- cοnvulsion idem, page 193.
- disturbance idem, page 242.
- locomotion idem, page 497.
- motion idem, page 542.
- movement idem, page 545.
- sedition idem, page 748.
- stir idem, page 818.
- unrest idem, page 930.
- upheaval idem, page 938.