κλάσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

κλᾰ́ω (kláō, “break”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /klá.sis/ → /ˈkla.sis/ → /ˈkla.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /klá.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.sis/

Noun

κλᾰ́σῐς • (klásis) f (genitive κλᾰ́σεως or κλᾰ́σιος); third declension

1. breaking, fracture
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 43e
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 2.14.4
     • Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 3.7.5
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 24:35
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 2:42
2. bending of the knee joint, refraction
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 882b33
   • 150 CE – 250 CE, Alexander of Aphrodisias, in Mete. 143.9
   • 490 CE – 560 CE, Simplicius, On Aristotle's Physics 785.25
   • 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 6.9.8
   1. (of a bandage)
   2. (of the labyrinth of the ear)
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Of the Uses of the Different Parts of the Human Body 8.6
3. modulation of the voice
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.276
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 2.266

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κλᾰ́σῐς; τῆς κλᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κλᾰ́σῐς hē klásis	τὼ κλᾰ́σει tṑ klásei	αἱ κλᾰ́σεις hai kláseis
Genitive	τῆς κλᾰ́σεως tês kláseōs	τοῖν κλᾰσέοιν toîn klaséoin	τῶν κλᾰ́σεων tôn kláseōn
Dative	τῇ κλᾰ́σει têi klásei	τοῖν κλᾰσέοιν toîn klaséoin	ταῖς κλᾰ́σεσῐ / κλᾰ́σεσῐν taîs klásesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κλᾰ́σῐν tḕn klásin	τὼ κλᾰ́σει tṑ klásei	τᾱ̀ς κλᾰ́σεις tā̀s kláseis
Vocative	κλᾰ́σῐ klási	κλᾰ́σει klásei	κλᾰ́σεις kláseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κλᾰσῐβῶλᾰξ (klasibôlax)

Descendants

• French: -clase
  • English: -clase

References

• “κλάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κλάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κλάσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2800 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible