θέσις

Ancient Greek

noun
Definitions
  • a setting, placement, arrangement
  • deposit
  • adoption (of a child)
  • adoption (in the more general sense of accepting as one's own)
  • (philosophy) position, conclusion, thesis
  • (dancing) putting down the foot
  • (metre) the last half of the foot
  • (rhetoric) affirmation
  • (grammar) stop

Etymology

Suffix from Ancient Greek τίθημι (place, put, I put, lay, set) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis (foundation, action, placement, deed), *dʰeh₁- (put, place, set, do, suck, suckle, make).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰeh₁-

Gloss

put, place, set, do, suck, suckle, make

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

哺

Emoji

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