ἥγησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἡγέομαι (hēgéomai, “to lead”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hɛ̌ː.ɡɛː.sis/ → /ˈi.ʝi.sis/ → /ˈi.ʝi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɛ̌ː.ɡɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)e̝.ɡe̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ʝi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ʝi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ʝi.sis/

Noun

ἥγησῐς • (hḗgēsis) f (genitive ἡγήσεως); third declension

1. command

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἥγησῐς; τῆς ἡγήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἥγησῐς hē hḗgēsis	τὼ ἡγήσει tṑ hēgḗsei	αἱ ἡγήσεις hai hēgḗseis
Genitive	τῆς ἡγήσεως tês hēgḗseōs	τοῖν ἡγησέοιν toîn hēgēséoin	τῶν ἡγήσεων tôn hēgḗseōn
Dative	τῇ ἡγήσει têi hēgḗsei	τοῖν ἡγησέοιν toîn hēgēséoin	ταῖς ἡγήσεσῐ / ἡγήσεσῐν taîs hēgḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἥγησῐν tḕn hḗgēsin	τὼ ἡγήσει tṑ hēgḗsei	τᾱ̀ς ἡγήσεις tā̀s hēgḗseis
Vocative	ἥγησῐ hḗgēsi	ἡγήσει hēgḗsei	ἡγήσεις hēgḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἡγητῐκός (hēgētikós)

Related terms

• δῐήγησῐς (diḗgēsis)
• εἰσήγησῐς (eisḗgēsis)
• ἐξήγησῐς (exḗgēsis)
• ἐπεξήγησῐς (epexḗgēsis)
• ἐπῐδῐήγησῐς (epidiḗgēsis)
• ἐφήγησῐς (ephḗgēsis)
• κᾰθήγησῐς (kathḗgēsis)
• κᾰθοδήγησῐς (kathodḗgēsis)
• κᾰτᾰδῐήγησῐς (katadiḗgēsis)
• ὁδήγησῐς (hodḗgēsis)
• περῐήγησῐς (periḗgēsis)
• προδῐήγησῐς (prodiḗgēsis)
• προήγησῐς (proḗgēsis)
• χορήγησῐς (khorḗgēsis)
• ᾰ̓ντεξήγησῐς (antexḗgēsis)
• ᾰ̓ντῐδῐήγησῐς (antidiḗgēsis)
• ᾰ̓ντῐστρᾰτήγησῐς (antistratḗgēsis)
• ᾰ̓φήγησῐς (aphḗgēsis)
• ῠ̔ποδῐήγησῐς (hupodiḗgēsis)
• ῠ̔φήγησῐς (huphḗgēsis)

 

References

• “ἥγησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἥγησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἥγησις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften