Hypostase

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (hupóstasis).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hypoˈstaːzə/
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aːzə

Noun

Hypostase f (genitive Hypostase, plural Hypostasen)

  1. (philosophy, religion, genetics) hypostasis
  2. (linguistics) (the process of an uninflected word (an adverb or a particle) becoming inflectable)

Declension

References

  • Hypostase” in Duden online
  • Hypostase” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Dunkel, George E. (2014), “Hypostase”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 1: Einleitung, Terminologie, Lautgesetze, Adverbialendungen, Nominalsuffixe, Anhänge und Indices, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 63