νόησις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- νῶσῐς (nôsis) — Ionic
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nó.ɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈno.e̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈno.i.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈno.i.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈno.i.sis/
Noun
νόησῐς • (nóēsis) f (genitive νοήσεως); third declension
- intelligence, understanding, mental perception
- processes of thought
- (concrete) idea, concept
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ νόησῐς hē nóēsis |
τὼ νοήσει tṑ noḗsei |
αἱ νοήσεις hai noḗseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς νοήσεως tês noḗseōs |
τοῖν νοησέοιν toîn noēséoin |
τῶν νοήσεων tôn noḗseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ νοήσει têi noḗsei |
τοῖν νοησέοιν toîn noēséoin |
ταῖς νοήσεσῐ / νοήσεσῐν taîs noḗsesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν νόησῐν tḕn nóēsin |
τὼ νοήσει tṑ noḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς νοήσεις tā̀s noḗseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νόησῐ nóēsi |
νοήσει noḗsei |
νοήσεις noḗseis | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sense-perception, sensation”)
Descendants
- → English: noesis
- Greek: νόηση (nóisi)
Further reading
- “νόησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νόησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νόησις 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.
- abstraction idem, page 4.
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