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-εις
-εις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- -ϝεις (-weis)
Suffix
-εις • (-eis) m -εσσᾰ f, -εν n; first/third declension
Inflection
Declension of -εις; -εσσᾰ; -εν
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
| Nominative | -εις | -εσσᾰ | -εν | -εντε | -έσσᾱ | -εντε | -εντες | -εσσαι | -εντᾰ | ||||
| Genitive | -εντος | -έσσης | -εντος | -έντοιν | -έσσαιν | -έντοιν | -έντων | -εσσῶν | -έντων | ||||
| Dative | -εντῐ | -έσσῃ | -εντῐ | -έντοιν | -έσσαιν | -έντοιν | -εσῐ | -έσσαις | -εσῐ | ||||
| Accusative | -εντᾰ | -εσσᾰν | -εν | -εντε | -έσσᾱ | -εντε | -εντᾰς | -έσσᾱς | -εντᾰ | ||||
| Vocative | -εν | -εσσᾰ | -εν | -εντε | -έσσᾱ | -εντε | -εντες | -εσσαι | -εντᾰ | ||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| -έντως | -έστερος | -έστᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Words taking this suffix have paroxytone accent, thus χᾰρῐ́εν (kharíen), not **χᾰ́ρῐεν.
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Ancient_Greek_words_suffixed_with_-%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82'>Ancient Greek words suffixed with -εις</a>
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 858.3