τίσις

From Proto-Hellenic *kʷítis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷéytis, from *kʷey- (“to pay, avenge”) (whence τίνω (tínō) and τίω (tíō)). Synchronically analysable as τίω (tíō) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

τῐ́σῐς • (tísis) f (genitive τῐ́σεως); third declension

1. payment
2. penalty, punishment, atonement, retribution, reward
3. vengeance

• τίσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τίσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τίσις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τίσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τίσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • amends idem, page 27.
  • atonement idem, page 49.
  • chastisement idem, page 127.
  • compensation idem, page 151.
  • expiation idem, page 294.
  • payment idem, page 600.
  • penalty idem, page 602.
  • punishment idem, page 658.
  • reckoning idem, page 679.
  • redress idem, page 684.
  • reparation idem, page 695.
  • reprisal idem, page 698.
  • requital idem, page 700.
  • retaliation idem, page 706.
  • retribution idem, page 708.
  • revenge idem, page 709.
  • scourge idem, page 741.
  • vengeance idem, page 947.