ἀντίθεσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ᾰ̓ντῐτῐ́θημῐ (ăntĭtĭ́thēmĭ, “to set against”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.tí.tʰe.sis/ → /anˈti.θe.sis/ → /anˈdi.θe.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.tí.tʰe.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /anˈti.tʰe.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /anˈti.θe.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /anˈti.θe.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /anˈdi.θe.sis/

Noun

ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐς • (ăntĭ́thesĭs) f (genitive ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεως); third declension

1. opposition, resistance
2. contradiction
3. (rhetoric) antithesis
4. (grammar) change or transposition of a letter

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐς; τῆς ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐς hē ăntĭ́thesĭs	τὼ ᾰ̓ντῐθέσει tṑ ăntĭthései	αἱ ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεις hai ăntĭthéseis
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεως tês ăntĭthéseōs	τοῖν ᾰ̓ντῐθεσέοιν toîn ăntĭtheséoin	τῶν ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεων tôn ăntĭthéseōn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓ντῐθέσει tēî ăntĭthései	τοῖν ᾰ̓ντῐθεσέοιν toîn ăntĭtheséoin	ταῖς ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεσῐ / ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεσῐν taîs ăntĭthésesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐν tḕn ăntĭ́thesĭn	τὼ ᾰ̓ντῐθέσει tṑ ăntĭthései	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεις tā̀s ăntĭthéseis
Vocative	ᾰ̓ντῐ́θεσῐ ăntĭ́thesĭ	ᾰ̓ντῐθέσει ăntĭthései	ᾰ̓ντῐθέσεις ăntĭthéseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αντίθεση (antíthesi)
• → Latin: antithesis
  • → English: antithesis
  • → French: antithèse

Further reading

• “ἀντίθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀντίθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀντίθεσις” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “ἀντίθεσις” in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• G477 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • antithesis idem, page 32.