μείωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μειόω (meióō, “to lessen, diminish”) +‎ -σις (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /měː.ɔː.sis/ → /ˈmi.o.sis/ → /ˈmi.o.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /měː.ɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.o.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.o.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.o.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.o.sis/

Noun

μείωσῐς • (meíōsis) f (genitive μειώσεως); third declension

1. diminution
2. waning (of the moon)
3. loss (of property)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ μείωσῐς; τῆς μειώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ μείωσῐς hē meíōsis
Genitive	τῆς μειώσεως tês meiṓseōs
Dative	τῇ μειώσει têi meiṓsei
Accusative	τὴν μείωσῐν tḕn meíōsin
Vocative	μείωσῐ meíōsi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: μείωση (meíosi)
• → Catalan: meiosi
• → English: meiosis, miosis
• → Finnish: meioosi
• → Hungarian: meiózis
• → Italian: meiosi
• → Latin: extenuātiō (semantic loan)
• → Polish: mejoza
• → Russian: мейо́з (mejóz)
  • → Kazakh: мейоз (meioz)
• → Spanish: meiosis

Further reading

• μείωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μείωσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “μείωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press