τεινεσμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τείνω (teínō, “to stretch, pull tight”) +‎ -εσμός (-esmós, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /teː.nez.mós/ → /ti.nezˈmos/ → /ti.nezˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /teː.nez.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ti.nezˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ti.nezˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ti.nezˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ti.nezˈmos/

Noun

τεινεσμός • (teinesmós) m (genitive τεινεσμοῦ); second declension

1. vain endeavor to evacuate

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τεινεσμός; τοῦ τεινεσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τεινεσμός ho teinesmós	τὼ τεινεσμώ tṑ teinesmṓ	οἱ τεινεσμοί hoi teinesmoí
Genitive	τοῦ τεινεσμοῦ toû teinesmoû	τοῖν τεινεσμοῖν toîn teinesmoîn	τῶν τεινεσμῶν tôn teinesmôn
Dative	τῷ τεινεσμῷ tôi teinesmôi	τοῖν τεινεσμοῖν toîn teinesmoîn	τοῖς τεινεσμοῖς toîs teinesmoîs
Accusative	τὸν τεινεσμόν tòn teinesmón	τὼ τεινεσμώ tṑ teinesmṓ	τοὺς τεινεσμούς toùs teinesmoús
Vocative	τεινεσμέ teinesmé	τεινεσμώ teinesmṓ	τεινεσμοί teinesmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τεινεσμώδης (teinesmṓdēs, adjective)

Descendants

• → Medieval Latin: tēnesmus (see there for further descendants)

References

• “τεινεσμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press