Ancient Greek

Noun

κλᾰ́σῐς • ‎(klásis) f ‎(genitive κλᾰ́σεως or κλᾰ́σιος); third declension

1. breaking, fracture
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 43e
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 2.14.4
     • Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 3.7.5
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 24.35
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 2.42
2. bending of the knee joint, refraction
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 882b33
   • 150 CE – 250 CE, Alexander of Aphrodisias, in Mete. 143.9
   • 490 CE – 560 CE, Simplicius, On Aristotle's Physics 785.25
   • 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 6.9.8
   1. (of a bandage)
   2. (of the labyrinth of the ear)
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Of the Uses of the Different Parts of the Human Body 8.6
3. modulation of the voice
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.276
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 2.266

Declension

Derived terms

• κλᾰσῐβῶλᾰξ ‎(klasibôlax)

Descendants

• French: -clase
  • English: -clase

References

• κλάσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κλάσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κλάσις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2800”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979