νόησις
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From νοέω (noéō, “to perceive, to think”) + -σῐς (-sis, suffix forming deverbal nouns).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nó.ɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈno.e̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈno.i.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈno.i.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈno.i.sis/
Noun[edit]
νόησῐς • (nóēsis) f (genitive νοήσεως); third declension
- intelligence, understanding, mental perception
- processes of thought
- (concrete) idea, concept
Declension[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ νόησῐς hē nóēsis |
τὼ νοήσει tṑ noḗsei |
αἱ νοήσεις hai noḗseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς νοήσεως tês noḗseōs |
τοῖν νοησέοιν toîn noēséoin |
τῶν νοήσεων tôn noḗseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ νοήσει têi noḗsei |
τοῖν νοησέοιν toîn noēséoin |
ταῖς νοήσεσῐ / νοήσεσῐν taîs noḗsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν νόησῐν tḕn nóēsin |
τὼ νοήσει tṑ noḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς νοήσεις tā̀s noḗseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | νόησῐ nóēsi |
νοήσει noḗsei |
νοήσεις noḗseis | ||||||||||
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Antonyms[edit]
- αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sense-perception, sensation”)
Descendants[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “νόησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νόησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νόησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- abstraction idem, page 4.