σύλληψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō) +‎ -σις (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sýl.lɛːp.sis/ → /ˈsyl.lip.sis/ → /ˈsi.lip.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sýl.lɛːp.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsyl.le̝p.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsyl.lip.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsyl.lip.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.lip.sis/

Noun

σύλληψῐς • (súllēpsis) f (genitive συλλήψεως); third declension

1. (the act of) seizing, arresting
2. conception

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σῠ́λληψῐς; τῆς σῠλλήψεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῠ́λληψῐς hē súllēpsis	τὼ σῠλλήψει tṑ sullḗpsei	αἱ σῠλλήψεις hai sullḗpseis
Genitive	τῆς σῠλλήψεως tês sullḗpseōs	τοῖν σῠλληψέοιν toîn sullēpséoin	τῶν σῠλλήψεων tôn sullḗpseōn
Dative	τῇ σῠλλήψει têi sullḗpsei	τοῖν σῠλληψέοιν toîn sullēpséoin	ταῖς σῠλλήψεσῐ / σῠλλήψεσῐν taîs sullḗpsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῠ́λληψῐν tḕn súllēpsin	τὼ σῠλλήψει tṑ sullḗpsei	τᾱ̀ς σῠλλήψεις tā̀s sullḗpseis
Vocative	σῠ́λληψῐ súllēpsi	σῠλλήψει sullḗpsei	σῠλλήψεις sullḗpseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: σύλληψη (sýllipsi)
• Latin: syllēpsis
  • → English: syllepsis
  • → German: Syllepse, Syllepsis
  • → Polish: syllepsa, syllepsis
  • → Portuguese: silepse (learned)

Further reading

• σύλληψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “σύλληψις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “σύλληψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • apprehension idem, page 36.
  • arrest idem, page 41.
  • seizure idem, page 750.