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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ἁλίσκομαι (halískomai) + -ωσις (-ōsis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /há.lɔː.sis/ → /ˈa.lo.sis/ → /ˈa.lo.sis/
Noun
ἅλωσῐς • (hálōsis) f (genitive ἁλώσεως); third declension
- capture, conquest
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἅλωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἅλωσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἅλωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἅλωσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G259 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.