γέννησις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γέννᾱσῐς (génnāsis) — Doric

Etymology

From γεννᾰ́ω (gennáō, “I beget”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis, verbal noun suffix). Compare simple γένεσις (génesis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡén.nɛː.sis/ → /ˈʝen.ni.sis/ → /ˈʝe.ni.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡén.nɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡen.ne̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈʝen.ni.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈʝen.ni.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈʝe.ni.sis/

Noun

γέννησῐς • (génnēsis) f (genitive γεννήσεως); third declension

1. producing
2. a birth

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ γέννησῐς; τῆς γεννήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ γέννησῐς hē génnēsis	τὼ γεννήσει tṑ gennḗsei	αἱ γεννήσεις hai gennḗseis
Genitive	τῆς γεννήσεως tês gennḗseōs	τοῖν γεννησέοιν toîn gennēséoin	τῶν γεννήσεων tôn gennḗseōn
Dative	τῇ γεννήσει têi gennḗsei	τοῖν γεννησέοιν toîn gennēséoin	ταῖς γεννήσεσῐ / γεννήσεσῐν taîs gennḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν γέννησῐν tḕn génnēsin	τὼ γεννήσει tṑ gennḗsei	τᾱ̀ς γεννήσεις tā̀s gennḗseis
Vocative	γέννησῐ génnēsi	γεννήσει gennḗsei	γεννήσεις gennḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀναγέννησις (anagénnēsis)
• ἀπογέννησις (apogénnēsis)
• ἐγγέννησις (engénnēsis)
• ἐπιγέννησις (epigénnēsis)
• προσγέννησις (prosgénnēsis)

 

Related terms

• γένεσις (génesis)

Further reading

• “γέννησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γέννησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• γέννησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• γέννησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1083 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • begetting idem, page 70.
  • breeding idem, page 97.
  • generation idem, page 356.
  • procreation idem, page 644.
  • production idem, page 645.
  • propagation idem, page 653.

Greek

Etymology

Ancient Greek γέννησις (génnēsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝe.ni.sis/
• Hyphenation: γέν‧νη‧σις

Noun

γέννησις • (génnisis) f (plural γεννήσεις)

1. Katharevousa form of γέννηση (génnisi)

Declension

As in Ancient Greek without the dual number