Ancient Greek

Noun

ψῑ́λωσῐς • ‎(psī́lōsis) f ‎(genitive ψῑλώσεως); third declension

1. a stripping bare (of flesh, hair, leaves, etc.)
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 7.19
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Clearchus of Soli, Collected Works 9
   • Archig., ap.Gal. 8.150
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.646.d
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 17.11.2
2. (grammar) a writing or pronouncing with the spiritus lenis, or of an unaspirated consonant
   • 1115 – 1195, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Collected Works 515.37

Declension

Descendants

• Translingual: metapsilosis
• Greek: ψίλωση ‎(psílosi)

References

• ψῑ́λωσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press