κίνησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κῑνέω (kīnéō, “I move”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kǐː.nɛː.sis/ → /ˈci.ni.sis/ → /ˈci.ni.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kǐː.nɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ne̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ni.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ni.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ni.sis/

Noun

κῑ́νησῐς • (kī́nēsis) f (genitive κῑνήσεως); third declension

1. motion
2. dance
3. political movement, revolt
4. change, revolution
5. (grammar) inflection
6. (law) punitive action

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κῑ́νησῐς; τῆς κῑνήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῑ́νησῐς hē kī́nēsis	τὼ κῑνήσει tṑ kīnḗsei	αἱ κῑνήσεις hai kīnḗseis
Genitive	τῆς κῑνήσεως tês kīnḗseōs	τοῖν κῑνησέοιν toîn kīnēséoin	τῶν κῑνήσεων tôn kīnḗseōn
Dative	τῇ κῑνήσει têi kīnḗsei	τοῖν κῑνησέοιν toîn kīnēséoin	ταῖς κῑνήσεσῐ / κῑνήσεσῐν taîs kīnḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κῑ́νησῐν tḕn kī́nēsin	τὼ κῑνήσει tṑ kīnḗsei	τᾱ̀ς κῑνήσεις tā̀s kīnḗseis
Vocative	κῑ́νησῐ kī́nēsi	κῑνήσει kīnḗsei	κῑνήσεις kīnḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “motion”): στάσις (stásis)

Related terms

Related terms

• ἀνακίνησις (anakínēsis)
• ἀντικίνησις (antikínēsis)
• αὐτοκίνησις (autokínēsis)
• διακίνησις (diakínēsis)
• μετακίνησις (metakínēsis)
• παρακίνησις (parakínēsis)
• προδιακίνησις (prodiakínēsis)
• συγκίνησις (sunkínēsis)
• ταχυκίνησις (takhukínēsis)

Descendants

• English: kinesis

References

• “κίνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κίνησις 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
• G2796 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κίνησις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • agitation idem, page 19.
  • cοnvulsion idem, page 193.
  • disturbance idem, page 242.
  • locomotion idem, page 497.
  • motion idem, page 542.
  • movement idem, page 545.
  • sedition idem, page 748.
  • stir idem, page 818.
  • unrest idem, page 930.
  • upheaval idem, page 938.