σκλήρωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σκληρόω (sklēróō, “to harden”) +‎ -σις (-sis); also interpretable as σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”) +‎ -ωσις (-ōsis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sklɛ̌ː.rɔː.sis/ → /ˈskli.ro.sis/ → /ˈskli.ro.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sklɛ̌ː.rɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈskle̝.ro.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈskli.ro.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈskli.ro.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈskli.ro.sis/

Noun

σκλήρωσῐς • (sklḗrōsis) f (genitive σκληρώσεως); third declension

1. hardening

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σκλήρωσῐς; τῆς σκληρώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ σκλήρωσῐς hē sklḗrōsis
Genitive	τῆς σκληρώσεως tês sklērṓseōs
Dative	τῇ σκληρώσει têi sklērṓsei
Accusative	τὴν σκλήρωσῐν tḕn sklḗrōsin
Vocative	σκλήρωσῐ sklḗrōsi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Danish: sclerose
• → Dutch: sclerose
• → English: sclerosis
• → Finnish: skleroosi
• → French: sclérose
• → Norwegian Bokmål: sklerose
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: sklerose
• → Polish: skleroza
• → Serbo-Croatian: skleróza
• → Spanish: esclerosis

Further reading

• σκλήρωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “σκλήρωσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “σκλήρωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press