ὀχύρωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀχυρόω (okhuróō) +‎ -σις (-sis), from ὀχυρός (okhurós, “firm, lasting”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.kʰý.rɔː.sis/ → /oˈçy.ro.sis/ → /oˈçi.ro.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.kʰý.rɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈkʰy.ro.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈçy.ro.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈçy.ro.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈçi.ro.sis/

Noun

ὀχῠ́ρωσῐς • (okhúrōsis) f (genitive ὀχῠρώσεως); third declension

1. an act of making secure, fortification
   • 75 CE, Josephus, The Jewish War 7.6,2

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὀχῠ́ρωσῐς; τῆς ὀχῠρώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀχῠ́ρωσῐς hē okhúrōsis	τὼ ὀχῠρώσει tṑ okhurṓsei	αἱ ὀχῠρώσεις hai okhurṓseis
Genitive	τῆς ὀχῠρώσεως tês okhurṓseōs	τοῖν ὀχῠρωσέοιν toîn okhurōséoin	τῶν ὀχῠρώσεων tôn okhurṓseōn
Dative	τῇ ὀχῠρώσει têi okhurṓsei	τοῖν ὀχῠρωσέοιν toîn okhurōséoin	ταῖς ὀχῠρώσεσῐ / ὀχῠρώσεσῐν taîs okhurṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀχῠ́ρωσῐν tḕn okhúrōsin	τὼ ὀχῠρώσει tṑ okhurṓsei	τᾱ̀ς ὀχῠρώσεις tā̀s okhurṓseis
Vocative	ὀχῠ́ρωσῐ okhúrōsi	ὀχῠρώσει okhurṓsei	ὀχῠρώσεις okhurṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὀχύρωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀχύρωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὀχύρωσις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften