κατάλυσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From καταλύω (katalúō) +‎ -σις (-sis); also analyzable as κατα- (kata-) +‎ λύσις (lúsis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tá.ly.sis/ → /kaˈta.ly.sis/ → /kaˈta.li.sis/

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

Noun

κᾰτάλῠσῐς • (katálusis) f (genitive κᾰτάλῠσιεως); third declension

1. dissolution, disbanding
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.18
2. lodging, quarters, accommodation

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κᾰτᾰ́λῠσῐς; τῆς κᾰτᾰλῠ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰτᾰ́λῠσῐς hē katálusis	τὼ κᾰτᾰλῠ́σει tṑ katalúsei	αἱ κᾰτᾰλῠ́σεις hai katalúseis
Genitive	τῆς κᾰτᾰλῠ́σεως tês katalúseōs	τοῖν κᾰτᾰλῠσέοιν toîn kataluséoin	τῶν κᾰτᾰλῠ́σεων tôn katalúseōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰτᾰλῠ́σει têi katalúsei	τοῖν κᾰτᾰλῠσέοιν toîn kataluséoin	ταῖς κᾰτᾰλῠ́σεσῐ / κᾰτᾰλῠ́σεσῐν taîs katalúsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰτᾰ́λῠσῐν tḕn katálusin	τὼ κᾰτᾰλῠ́σει tṑ katalúsei	τᾱ̀ς κᾰτᾰλῠ́σεις tā̀s katalúseis
Vocative	κᾰτᾰ́λῠσῐ katálusi	κᾰτᾰλῠ́σει katalúsei	κᾰτᾰλῠ́σεις katalúseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: κατάλυση (katálysi), κατάλ (katál)
• → Armenian: կատալիզ (kataliz)
• → Catalan: catàlisi
• → Czech: katal, katalýza
• → Danish: katalyse
• → English: catalysis, katal
• → Esperanto: katalo
• → Finnish: katal, katalyysi
• → French: catalyse
• → German: Katalyse
• → Indonesian: katal
• → Italian: catalisi
• → Kazakh: катал (katal)
• → Latvian: katalīze
• → Malay: katal
• → Norwegian Bokmål: katalyse
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: katalyse
• → Polish: katal, kataliza
• → Portuguese: catálise
• → Romanian: cataliză
• → Russian: катал (katal), катализ (kataliz)
• → Spanish: catálisis
• → Swedish: katalys

Further reading

• κατάλυσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κατάλυσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abolition idem, page 2.
  • abrogation idem, page 3.
  • accommodation idem, page 6.
  • breaking up idem, page 96.
  • deposition idem, page 212.
  • lodging idem, page 497.
  • overthrow idem, page 586.
  • quarters idem, page 664.
  • repression idem, page 698.
  • rescission idem, page 700.
  • reversal idem, page 710.
  • revocation idem, page 711.
  • shelter idem, page 764.
  • supersession idem, page 839.
  • suppression idem, page 842.
  • suspension idem, page 845.