Etymology

From Proto-HellenicCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic#ΔΟΣΙΣ *dótis, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ΔΟΣΙΣ *déh₃tis. By surface analysis, δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”) +‎ -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix)Category:Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις#ΔΟΣΙΣ.

Pronunciation

Noun

δόσῐς • (dósĭs) f (genitive δόσῐος or δόσεως)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Ancient Greek paroxytone terms#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Ancient Greek third-declension nouns#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΔΟΣΙΣCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΔΟΣΙΣ; third declension

1. giving, a gift
2. license, permission
3. portion
4. dose of medicine

Further reading

• “δόσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δόσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δόσις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δόσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δόσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δόσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• “δόσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1394 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bequest idem, page 74.
  • bounty idem, page 91.
  • dole idem, page 246.
  • donation idem, page 247.
  • gift idem, page 359.
  • grant idem, page 369.
  • legacy idem, page 484.
  • offering idem, page 571.
  • payment idem, page 600.
  • present idem, page 636.