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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὀρέγω (orégō, “I stretch”) + -σῐς (-sis).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ó.rek.sis/ → /ˈo.rek.sis/ → /ˈo.rek.sis/
Noun
ὄρεξῐς • (órexis) f (genitive ὀρέξεως); third declension
- yearning, longing, desire, appetite
Inflection
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “ὄρεξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄρεξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄρεξις 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
- G3715 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible