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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μειόω (meióō, “to lessen, diminish”) + -σις (-sis)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /měː.ɔː.sis/ → /ˈmi.o.sis/ → /ˈmi.o.sis/
Noun
μείωσῐς • (meíōsis) f (genitive μειώσεως); third declension
- diminution
- waning (of the moon)
- loss (of property)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- μείωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μείωσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “μείωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press