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-ις
-ις
See also: ἴς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- -τίς (-tís) extended form
Suffix
-ῐς • (-is) (genitive -ῐδος)
- Forms feminine nouns, or feminine forms of adjectives (often accented on the ultima)
- Ἕλλην > Ἑλληνίς
- Héllēn > ****ēnís
- Greek (man) > Greek woman
- Ἕλλην > Ἑλληνίς
Declension
Third declension of -ῐς; -ῐδος
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -ῐς | -ῐδε | -ῐδες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | -ῐδος | -ῐ́δοιν | -ῐ́δων | ||||||||||
| Dative | -ῐδῐ | -ῐ́δοιν | -ῐσῐ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | -ῐν | -ῐδε | -ῐδᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | -ῐ | -ῐδε | -ῐδες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Ancient_Greek_words_suffixed_with_-%CE%B9%CF%82'>Ancient Greek words suffixed with -ις</a>
See also
- -σῐς (-sis)
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 843.b.2