νόησις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νοέεσῐς (noéesĭs) — Old Attic
• νῶσῐς (nôsĭs) — Ionic

Etymology

From νοέω (noéō, “to perceive, to think”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming deverbal nouns).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nó.ɛː.sis/ → /ˈno.i.sis/ → /ˈno.i.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nó.ɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈno.e̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈno.i.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈno.i.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈno.i.sis/

Noun

νόησῐς • (nóēsĭs) f (genitive νοήσεως); third declension

1. intelligence; understanding; mental perception

   Coordinate terms: αἴσθησῐς (aísthēsĭs), δῐᾰ́νοιᾰ (dĭắnoiă), ἐπῐστήμη (epĭstḗmē)

2. process of thought
3. concrete idea; concept

Declension

Third declension of ἡ νόησῐς; τῆς νοήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νόησῐς hē nóēsĭs	τὼ νοήσει tṑ noḗsei	αἱ νοήσεις hai noḗseis
Genitive	τῆς νοήσεως tês noḗseōs	τοῖν νοησέοιν toîn noēséoin	τῶν νοήσεων tôn noḗseōn
Dative	τῇ νοήσει tēî noḗsei	τοῖν νοησέοιν toîn noēséoin	ταῖς νοήσεσῐ / νοήσεσῐν taîs noḗsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν νόησῐν tḕn nóēsĭn	τὼ νοήσει tṑ noḗsei	τᾱ̀ς νοήσεις tā̀s noḗseis
Vocative	νόησῐ nóēsĭ	νοήσει noḗsei	νοήσεις noḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: νόηση (nóisi)
• → English: noesis

Further reading

• “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.