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δέησις (deesis): all forms

δέησις means “request, entreaty”. Below is its full declension in Ancient Greek.

Forms

Forms, singular
Feminine
Nominativeδέησις
Genitiveδεήσεως
Dativeδεήσει
Accusativeδέησιν
Vocativeδέησι
Forms, plural
Feminine
Nominativeδεήσεις
Genitiveδεήσεων
Dativeδεήσεσι(ν)
Accusativeδεήσεις
Vocativeδεήσεις

Meaning and examples of δέησις

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.