κίνησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κῑνέω (kīnéō, “to move”) + -σῐς (-sĭs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kǐː.nɛː.sis/ → /ˈci.ni.sis/ → /ˈci.ni.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kǐː.nɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ne̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ni.sis/
• (10^th CE Medieval) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ni.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ni.sis/

Noun

κῑ́νησῐς • (kī́nēsĭs) f (genitive κῑνήσεως); third declension

1. motion

   Antonyms: στᾰ́σῐς (stắsĭs), ἠρεμῐ́ᾱ (ēremĭ́ā)

2. dance
3. political movement; revolt
4. change; revolution
5. (grammar) inflection
6. (law) punitive action

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κῑ́νησῐς; τῆς κῑνήσεως (Attic)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ἡ κῑ́νησῐςhē kī́nēsĭs	τὼ κῑνήσειtṑ kīnḗsei	αἱ κῑνήσειςhai kīnḗseis
genitive	τῆς κῑνήσεωςtês kīnḗseōs	τοῖν κῑνησέοινtoîn kīnēséoin	τῶν κῑνήσεωνtôn kīnḗseōn
dative	τῇ κῑνήσειtēî kīnḗsei	τοῖν κῑνησέοινtoîn kīnēséoin	ταῖς κῑνήσεσῐ / κῑνήσεσῐνtaîs kīnḗsesĭ(n)
accusative	τὴν κῑ́νησῐνtḕn kī́nēsĭn	τὼ κῑνήσειtṑ kīnḗsei	τᾱ̀ς κῑνήσειςtā̀s kīnḗseis
vocative	κῑ́νησῐkī́nēsĭ	κῑνήσειkīnḗsei	κῑνήσειςkīnḗseis

• This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ᾰ̓νᾰκῑ́νησῐς (ănăkī́nēsĭs)
• ᾰ̓ντῐκῑ́νησῐς (ăntĭkī́nēsĭs)
• αὐτοκῑ́νησῐς (autokī́nēsĭs)
• δῐᾰκῑ́νησῐς (dĭăkī́nēsĭs)
  • προδῐᾰκῑ́νησῐς (prodĭăkī́nēsĭs)
• μετᾰκῑ́νησῐς (metăkī́nēsĭs)
• πᾰρᾰκῑ́νησῐς (părăkī́nēsĭs)
• σῠγκῑ́νησῐς (sŭnkī́nēsĭs)
• τᾰχῠκῑ́νησῐς (tăkhŭkī́nēsĭs)

Descendants

• English: kinesis

References

• “κίνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κίνησις” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Strong, James (1979), “G2796”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κίνησις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • agitation idem, page 19.
  • cοnvulsion idem, page 193.
  • disturbance idem, page 242.
  • locomotion idem, page 497.
  • motion idem, page 542.
  • movement idem, page 545.
  • sedition idem, page 748.
  • stir idem, page 818.
  • unrest idem, page 930.
  • upheaval idem, page 938.