"λῆψις" meaning in Ancient Greek

See λῆψις in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /lɛ̂ːp.sis/, /ˈlip.sis/, /ˈlip.sis/, /lɛ̂ːp.sis/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈle̝p.sis/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈlip.sis/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈlip.sis/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈlip.sis/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take, grasp, seize”) + -σῐς (-sis). Etymology templates: {{af|grc|λαμβάνω|-σῐς|t1=to take, grasp, seize}} λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take, grasp, seize”) + -σῐς (-sis) Head templates: {{grc-noun|λήψεως|f|third|head=λῆψῐς}} λῆψῐς • (lêpsis) f (genitive λήψεως); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|λῆψῐς|λήψεως|form=F}} Forms: λῆψῐς [canonical], lêpsis [romanization], λήψεως [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], ἡ λῆψῐς [nominative, singular], τὼ λήψει [dual, nominative], αἱ λήψεις [nominative, plural], τῆς λήψεως [genitive, singular], τοῖν ληψέοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν λήψεων [genitive, plural], τῇ λήψει [dative, singular], τοῖν ληψέοιν [dative, dual], ταῖς λήψεσῐ [dative, plural], λήψεσῐν [dative, plural], taîs lḗpsesi [dative, plural], taîs lḗpsesin [dative, plural], τὴν λῆψῐν [accusative, singular], τὼ λήψει [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς λήψεις [accusative, plural], λῆψῐ [singular, vocative], λήψει [dual, vocative], λήψεις [plural, vocative]
  1. taking hold, seizing, catching
    Sense id: en-λῆψις-grc-noun-1YF0Ahad Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 61 7 4 12 11 5 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension: 29 13 10 18 21 9 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις: 42 12 7 14 17 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 74 4 3 10 6 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 3 3 4 3 1
  2. accepting, receiving
    Sense id: en-λῆψις-grc-noun-PpvV8YYB
  3. attack of fever or sickness, seizure Categories (topical): Pathology
    Sense id: en-λῆψις-grc-noun-Ve0nMOwk Disambiguation of Pathology: 34 1 51 4 8 1
  4. (logic) assumption Categories (topical): Logic
    Sense id: en-λῆψις-grc-noun-wIHdN2up Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
  5. (in a poem) choice of matter
    Sense id: en-λῆψις-grc-noun-N6CwOCYK
  6. (in music) choice of pitch
    Sense id: en-λῆψις-grc-noun-6l4qVPLk
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        "(in music) choice of pitch"
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    },
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    },
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.