Ancient Greek

Noun

ὀξῠ́της • ‎(oxútēs) f ‎(genitive ὀξῠ́τητος); third declension

1. (of angles) sharpness, pointedness
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 56d
     • Plato, Timaeus 61e
2. (of senses) sharpness
   1. (of sound) highness, intensity
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   2. (of taste, plural) pungency, acidity
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine 19
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων 61
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 11.656
   3. (of sight) acuity
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.10.492a4
3. (figuratively) cleverness
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 2.31.S.
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Essays in Portraiture (Images) 17
4. (of motion, action, or occurrence) quickness
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   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 24.95
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pyrrhus 2
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, 15 43.
5. (grammar) oxia (the acute accent)
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Adverbs 138.16
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1456b33
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Declension

Synonyms

• (oxia, the acute accent): ὀξεῖα ‎(oxeîa)

Antonyms

• (sharpness of sound): βᾰρῠ́της ‎(barútēs)
• (oxia, the acute accent): βᾰρῠ́της ‎(barútēs)

References

• ὀξύτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀξύτης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὀξύτης» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accent idem, page 5.
  • activity idem, page 10.
  • alertness idem, page 22.
  • briskness idem, page 100.
  • keenness idem, page 467.
  • penetration idem, page 603.
  • quickness idem, page 665.
  • readiness idem, page 675.
  • sharpness idem, page 762.
  • shrillness idem, page 771.
  • smartness idem, page 786.