ἐμφύτευσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐμφυτεύω (emphuteúō, “to implant, engraft”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /em.pʰý.teu̯.sis/ → /emˈɸy.teɸ.sis/ → /emˈfi.tef.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /em.pʰý.teu̯.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /emˈpʰy.teʍ.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /emˈɸy.teɸ.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /emˈfy.tef.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /emˈfi.tef.sis/

Noun

ἐμφύτευσῐς • (emphúteusĭs) f (genitive ἐμφῠτεύσεως); third declension

1. (Ancient Rome, law) tenure of an ἐμφύτευμα (emphúteuma), a type of hereditary leasehold in Roman law

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἐμφῠ́τευσῐς; τῆς ἐμφῠτεύσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐμφῠ́τευσῐς hē emphŭ́teusĭs	τὼ ἐμφῠτεύσει tṑ emphŭteúsei	αἱ ἐμφῠτεύσεις hai emphŭteúseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐμφῠτεύσεως tês emphŭteúseōs	τοῖν ἐμφῠτευσέοιν toîn emphŭteuséoin	τῶν ἐμφῠτεύσεων tôn emphŭteúseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐμφῠτεύσει tēî emphŭteúsei	τοῖν ἐμφῠτευσέοιν toîn emphŭteuséoin	ταῖς ἐμφῠτεύσεσῐ / ἐμφῠτεύσεσῐν taîs emphŭteúsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐμφῠ́τευσῐν tḕn emphŭ́teusĭn	τὼ ἐμφῠτεύσει tṑ emphŭteúsei	τᾱ̀ς ἐμφῠτεύσεις tā̀s emphŭteúseis
Vocative	ἐμφῠ́τευσῐ emphŭ́teusĭ	ἐμφῠτεύσει emphŭteúsei	ἐμφῠτεύσεις emphŭteúseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐμφυτευτικός (emphuteutikós)

Related terms

• ἐμφύτευμα (emphúteuma)
• ἐμφυτεύτης (emphuteútēs)
• ἐμφυτεύω (emphuteúō)

Descendants

• → Latin: emphyteusis
• → Latin: emphyteosis

Further reading

• “ἐμφύτευσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐμφύτευσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• ἐμφύτευσις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011