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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʷítis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷéytis, from *kʷey- (“to pay, avenge”) (whence τίνω (tínō) and τίω (tíō)). By surface analysis, τίω (tíō) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tí.sis/ → /ˈti.sis/ → /ˈti.sis/
Noun
τῐ́σῐς • (tísis) f (genitive τῐ́σεως); third declension
- payment
- penalty, punishment, atonement, retribution, reward
- vengeance
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “τίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τίσις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τίσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τίσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- amends idem, page 27.
- atonement idem, page 49.
- chastisement idem, page 127.
- compensation idem, page 151.
- expiation idem, page 294.
- payment idem, page 600.
- penalty idem, page 602.
- punishment idem, page 658.
- reckoning idem, page 679.
- redress idem, page 684.
- reparation idem, page 695.
- reprisal idem, page 698.
- requital idem, page 700.
- retaliation idem, page 706.
- retribution idem, page 708.
- revenge idem, page 709.
- scourge idem, page 741.
- vengeance idem, page 947.