μείωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• (5^thBCEAttic)IPA^(key):/měː.ɔː.sis/
• (1^stCEEgyptian)IPA^(key):/ˈmi.o.sis/
• (4^thCEKoine)IPA^(key):/ˈmi.o.sis/
• (10^thCEByzantine)IPA^(key):/ˈmi.o.sis/
• (15^thCEConstantinopolitan)IPA^(key):/ˈmi.o.sis/

Noun

μείωσῐς•(meíōsis)f(genitiveμειώσεως);third declension

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

Declension

Third declensionofἡμείωσῐς;τῆςμειώσεως(Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡμείωσῐς hē meíōsis
Genitive	τῆςμειώσεως tês meiṓseōs
Dative	τῇμειώσει têi meiṓsei
Accusative	τὴνμείωσῐν tḕn meíōsin
Vocative	μείωσῐ meíōsi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, seeAppendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants ofμείωσις

• 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

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