γεῦσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

γεύω (geúō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡêu̯.sis/ → /ˈʝeɸ.sis/ → /ˈʝef.sis/

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

Noun

γεῦσῐς • (geûsis) f (genitive γεύσεως); third declension

1. sense of taste, tasting
2. the action of tasting
3. food
4. taste, flavor
5. back of the tongue

Declension

Third declension of ἡ γεῦσῐς; τῆς γεύσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ γεῦσῐς hē geûsis	τὼ γεύσει tṑ geúsei	αἱ γεύσεις hai geúseis
Genitive	τῆς γεύσεως tês geúseōs	τοῖν γευσέοιν toîn geuséoin	τῶν γεύσεων tôn geúseōn
Dative	τῇ γεύσει têi geúsei	τοῖν γευσέοιν toîn geuséoin	ταῖς γεύσεσῐ / γεύσεσῐν taîs geúsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν γεῦσῐν tḕn geûsin	τὼ γεύσει tṑ geúsei	τᾱ̀ς γεύσεις tā̀s geúseis
Vocative	γεῦσῐ geûsi	γεύσει geúsei	γεύσεις geúseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “γεῦσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γεῦσις 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
• γεῦσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G5594 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “γεῦσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • flavour idem, page 326.
  • taste idem, page 856.