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-σις
-σις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- -τις (-tis)
Suffix
-σῐς • (-sis) f
- Added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or process
Declension
Third declension of -σῐς; -σεως
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -σῐς | -σει / -σεε | -σεις / -σεες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | -σεως | -σέοιν | -σεων | ||||||||||
| Dative | -σει / -σεῐ̈ | -σέοιν | -σεσῐ(ν) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | -σῐν | -σει / -σεε | -σεις | ||||||||||
| Vocative | -σῐ | -σει / -σεε | -σεις / -σεες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Ancient_Greek_words_suffixed_with_-%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%82'>Ancient Greek words suffixed with -σις</a>
- -σίᾱ (-síā)
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 840.2