ἐπίλυσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπιλύω (epilúō, “set free, release”) +‎ -σις (-sis, “a suffix added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or process”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pí.ly.sis/ → /eˈpi.ly.sis/ → /eˈpi.li.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pí.ly.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eˈpi.ly.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈpi.ly.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈpi.ly.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈpi.li.sis/

Noun

ἐπίλῠσῐς • (epílusis) f (genitive ἐπίλῠσεως); third declension

1. release from, exemption from banishment
2. solution, explanation
3. discharge of a debt
4. spell
5. (medicine) change of dressing

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἐπῐ́λῠσῐς; τῆς ἐπῐλῠ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπῐ́λῠσῐς hē epílusis	τὼ ἐπῐλῠ́σει tṑ epilúsei	αἱ ἐπῐλῠ́σεις hai epilúseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐπῐλῠ́σεως tês epilúseōs	τοῖν ἐπῐλῠσέοιν toîn epiluséoin	τῶν ἐπῐλῠ́σεων tôn epilúseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐπῐλῠ́σει têi epilúsei	τοῖν ἐπῐλῠσέοιν toîn epiluséoin	ταῖς ἐπῐλῠ́σεσῐ / ἐπῐλῠ́σεσῐν taîs epilúsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐπῐ́λῠσῐν tḕn epílusin	τὼ ἐπῐλῠ́σει tṑ epilúsei	τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐλῠ́σεις tā̀s epilúseis
Vocative	ἐπῐ́λῠσῐ epílusi	ἐπῐλῠ́σει epilúsei	ἐπῐλῠ́σεις epilúseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• ἐπίλυσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐπίλυσις - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “ἐπίλυσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press