dioecesis

Latin

From Ancient Greek διοίκησις (dioíkēsis, “internal administration”).

dioecēsis f (genitive dioecēsis or dioecēseōs or dioecēsios); third declension

diocese
- circa 1590, Abraham Ortelius, Islandia (map):
  His notis diſtinguitur limes inter vtramque dioeceſim.

Third declension, Greek type, with some i-stem forms.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	dioecēsis	dioecēsēs dioecēseis dioecēsies
genitive	dioecēsis dioecēseōs dioecēsios	dioecēseōn dioecēsiōn dioecēsium
dative	dioecēsī dioecēsei	dioecēsibus dioecēsesi
accusative	dioecēsin dioecēsim dioecēsem	dioecēsēs dioecēseis dioecēsīs dioecēsias
ablative	dioecēsī dioecēsei	dioecēsibus dioecēsesi
vocative	diaeresi diaeresis	dioecēsēs dioecēseis dioecēsies

In older New Latin the genitive is also spelled with the Greek letter omega as dioecēseωs in the singular and dioecēseωn in the plural.

dioecesis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
dioecesis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
dioecesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
dioecesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
“dioecēsis” on page 546/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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