θέσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”) +‎ -σις (-sis), although it could either have been formed in Greek or go back earlier. In the latter case, would be from a Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis, from *dʰeh₁- (root of τίθημι (títhēmi)). Cognates include Sanskrit अपिहिति (ápihiti), Avestan 𐬀𐬭𐬋𐬌𐬛𐬍𐬙𐬌 (arōidīti), Latin conditiō, and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐌴𐌸𐍃 (gadēþs). More at deed.^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰé.sis/ → /ˈθe.sis/ → /ˈθe.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰé.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰe.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθe.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθe.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθe.sis/

Noun

θέσῐς • (thésĭs) f (genitive θέσεως); third declension

1. a setting, placement, arrangement
2. deposit
3. adoption (of a child)
4. adoption (in the more general sense of accepting as one's own)
5. (philosophy) position, conclusion, thesis
6. (dance) putting down the foot
7. (metre) the last half of the foot
8. (rhetoric) affirmation
9. (grammar) stop

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θέσῐς hē thésĭs	τὼ θέσει tṑ thései	αἱ θέσεις hai théseis
Genitive	τῆς θέσεως tês théseōs	τοῖν θεσέοιν toîn theséoin	τῶν θέσεων tôn théseōn
Dative	τῇ θέσει têi thései	τοῖν θεσέοιν toîn theséoin	ταῖς θέσεσῐ / θέσεσῐν taîs thésesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν θέσῐν tḕn thésĭn	τὼ θέσει tṑ thései	τᾱ̀ς θέσεις tā̀s théseis
Vocative	θέσῐ thésĭ	θέσει thései	θέσεις théseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ἡ θέσῐς; τῆς θέσεως (Attic)

Derived terms

• ἀνάθεσις (anáthesis)
• ἀντένθεσις (anténthesis)
• ἀντεπίθεσις (antepíthesis)
• ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis)
• ἀντιμετάθεσις (antimetáthesis)
• ἀντιπαράθεσις (antiparáthesis)
• ἀπόθεσις (apóthesis)
• διάθεσις (diáthesis)
• εἴσθεσις (eísthesis)
• ἔκθεσις (ékthesis)
• ἐναπόθεσις (enapóthesis)
• ἔνθεσις (énthesis)
• ἐπείσθεσις (epeísthesis)
• ἐπέκθεσις (epékthesis)
• ἐπένθεσις (epénthesis)
• ἐπίθεσις (epíthesis)
• ἐπιπρόσθεσις (epiprósthesis)
• ἐπισύνθεσις (episúnthesis)
• ἡμισύνθεσις (hēmisúnthesis)
• κατάθεσις (katáthesis)
• μετάθεσις (metáthesis)
• παράθεσις (paráthesis)
• παρέκθεσις (parékthesis)
• παρένθεσις (parénthesis)
• περίθεσις (períthesis)
• προδιάθεσις (prodiáthesis)
• προέκθεσις (proékthesis)
• πρόθεσις (próthesis)
• πρόσθεσις (prósthesis)
• συγκατάθεσις (sunkatáthesis)
• συναντίθεσις (sunantíthesis)
• συνεπίθεσις (sunepíthesis)
• σύνθεσις (súnthesis)
• ὑπέκθεσις (hupékthesis)
• ὑπέρθεσις (hupérthesis)
• ὑπόθεσις (hupóthesis)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: thesis (see there for further descendants)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “θέσις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 543

Further reading

• “θέσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θέσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θέσις 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
• “θέσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• θέσις 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • assumption idem, page 48.
  • caution idem, page 119.
  • deposit idem, page 212.
  • earnest idem, page 259.
  • hypothesis idem, page 412.
  • place idem, page 616.
  • position idem, page 628.
  • site idem, page 779.
  • situation idem, page 780.
  • station idem, page 813.
  • supposition idem, page 842.
  • thesis idem, page 865.