διήγησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From δῐηγέομαι (diēgéomai, “set out in detail, describe”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.ɛ̌ː.ɡɛː.sis/ → /ðiˈi.ʝi.sis/ → /ðiˈi.ʝi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.ɛ̌ː.ɡɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /diˈe̝.ɡe̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈi.ʝi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈi.ʝi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈi.ʝi.sis/

Noun

δῐήγησῐς • (diḗgēsis) f (genitive δῐηγήσεως); third declension

1. narration, narrative
   1. (in a speech) statement of a case

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ δῐήγησῐς; τῆς δῐηγήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῐήγησῐς hē diḗgēsis	τὼ δῐηγήσει tṑ diēgḗsei	αἱ δῐηγήσεις hai diēgḗseis
Genitive	τῆς δῐηγήσεως tês diēgḗseōs	τοῖν δῐηγησέοιν toîn diēgēséoin	τῶν δῐηγήσεων tôn diēgḗseōn
Dative	τῇ δῐηγήσει têi diēgḗsei	τοῖν δῐηγησέοιν toîn diēgēséoin	ταῖς δῐηγήσεσῐ / δῐηγήσεσῐν taîs diēgḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν δῐήγησῐν tḕn diḗgēsin	τὼ δῐηγήσει tṑ diēgḗsei	τᾱ̀ς δῐηγήσεις tā̀s diēgḗseis
Vocative	δῐήγησῐ diḗgēsi	δῐηγήσει diēgḗsei	δῐηγήσεις diēgḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• ἐξήγησῐς (exḗgēsis)

References

• “διήγησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διήγησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διήγησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διήγησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1335 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • description idem, page 214.
  • enumeration idem, page 279.
  • narration idem, page 551.
  • relation idem, page 689.
  • repetition idem, page 696.
  • review idem, page 710.
  • statement idem, page 812.