ζήτησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζητέω (zētéō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdɛ̌ː.tɛː.sis/ → /ˈzi.ti.sis/ → /ˈzi.ti.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdɛ̌ː.tɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈze̝.te̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈzi.ti.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈzi.ti.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈzi.ti.sis/

Noun

ζήτησῐς • (zḗtēsis) f (genitive ζητήσεως); third declension

1. the act of seeking, searching for
2. a search
3. inquiry, investigation
4. question

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ζήτησῐς; τῆς ζητήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ζήτησῐς hē zḗtēsis	τὼ ζητήσει tṑ zētḗsei	αἱ ζητήσεις hai zētḗseis
Genitive	τῆς ζητήσεως tês zētḗseōs	τοῖν ζητησέοιν toîn zētēséoin	τῶν ζητήσεων tôn zētḗseōn
Dative	τῇ ζητήσει têi zētḗsei	τοῖν ζητησέοιν toîn zētēséoin	ταῖς ζητήσεσῐ / ζητήσεσῐν taîs zētḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ζήτησῐν tḕn zḗtēsin	τὼ ζητήσει tṑ zētḗsei	τᾱ̀ς ζητήσεις tā̀s zētḗseis
Vocative	ζήτησῐ zḗtēsi	ζητήσει zētḗsei	ζητήσεις zētḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• ζήτησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ζήτησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ζήτησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• G2214 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chase idem, page 126.
  • examination idem, page 287.
  • hunt idem, page 410.
  • inquiry idem, page 443.
  • investigation idem, page 457.
  • quest idem, page 665.
  • research idem, page 701.
  • scrutiny idem, page 743.
  • search idem, page 746.
• “ζήτησις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011