θίξις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of θιγγάνω (thingánō, “to touch, grasp”) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰík.sis/ → /ˈθik.sis/ → /ˈθik.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰík.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰik.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθik.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθik.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθik.sis/

Noun

θίξῐς • (thíxĭs) f (genitive θίξεως); third declension

1. touching
2. (figurative) apprehension of the mind

Declension

Third declension of ἡ θῐ́ξῐς; τῆς θῐ́ξεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θῐ́ξῐς hē thĭ́xĭs	τὼ θῐ́ξει tṑ thĭ́xei	αἱ θῐ́ξεις hai thĭ́xeis
Genitive	τῆς θῐ́ξεως tês thĭ́xeōs	τοῖν θῐξέοιν toîn thĭxéoin	τῶν θῐ́ξεων tôn thĭ́xeōn
Dative	τῇ θῐ́ξει tēî thĭ́xei	τοῖν θῐξέοιν toîn thĭxéoin	ταῖς θῐ́ξεσῐ / θῐ́ξεσῐν taîs thĭ́xesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν θῐ́ξῐν tḕn thĭ́xĭn	τὼ θῐ́ξει tṑ thĭ́xei	τᾱ̀ς θῐ́ξεις tā̀s thĭ́xeis
Vocative	θῐ́ξῐ thĭ́xĭ	θῐ́ξει thĭ́xei	θῐ́ξεις thĭ́xeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• →⇒ English: thixophobia
• →⇒ English: thixotropy

Further reading

• θίξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• θίξις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “θίξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θίξις in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn