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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πέσσω (péssō, “to ripen; cook; digest”) + -σῐς (-sis).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pép.sis/ → /ˈpep.sis/ → /ˈpep.sis/
Noun
πέψῐς • (pépsis) f (genitive πέψεως); third declension
- softening, ripening, or changing by means of heat
- (in general) cooking of food
- (of wine) fermentation
- (medicine) digestion of food
- concoction of acrid humors
- concoction, as a function of the animal organs
Declension
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “πέψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- "πέψις" in: The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, edited by: Franco Montanari. Consulted online on 15/06/2020. First published online: July 2015.
- "ἔκπεψις" in DGE en línea
- "πέσσω" in: Chantraine, Pierre (1968) Dictionnaire Etymologique De La Langue Grecque pp.890-1
- “πέψις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011