ἔμεσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐμέω (eméō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.me.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.me.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.me.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.me.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.me.sis/
Noun
ἔμεσῐς • (émesĭs) f (genitive ἐμέσεως); third declension
- (the act of) vomiting
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἔμεσις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἔμεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔμεσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
- ἔμεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔμεσις in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- ἔμεσις 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