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νέκρωσις
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νεκρόω (nekróō, “I make dead, I am dead; I mortify”) + -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /né.krɔː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈne.kro.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈne.kro.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈne.kro.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈne.kro.sis/
Noun
νέκρωσις • (nékrōsis) f (genitive νέκρωσεως); third declension
- a state of death, deadness; death
- Ep., Cor. 4.10
- (figurative) mortification
- Ep., Rom. 4.19
- Astrampsychus, Dream Interpretations 6R
Inflection
Descendants
- → English: necrosis
See also
References
- “νέκρωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νέκρωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
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