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ἦθος
ἦθος
Ancient Greek
Noun
ἦθος • (êthos) n (genitive ἤθους)
Inflection
Third declension of ἦθος, ἤθεος (uncontracted)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἦθος | τὼ ἤθεε | τὰ ἤθεᾰ |
| Genitive | τοῦ ἤθεος | τοῖν ηθέοιν | τῶν ηθέων |
| Dative | τῷ ἤθεϊ | τοῖν ηθέοιν | τοῖς ἤθεσσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative | τὸ ἦθος | τὼ ἤθεε | τὰ ἤθεᾰ |
| Vocative | ἦθος | ἤθεε | ἤθεᾰ |
| Notes: | This inflection pattern originally had a sigma (i.e. *ἤθεσος), which was dropped early in the history of Ancient Greek. |
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Third declension of ἦθος, ἤθους (contracted)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἦθος | τὼ ἤθει | τὰ ἤθη |
| Genitive | τοῦ ἤθους | τοῖν ηθοῖν | τῶν ηθῶν |
| Dative | τῷ ἤθει | τοῖν ηθοῖν | τοῖς ἤθεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative | τὸ ἦθος | τὼ ἤθει | τὰ ἤθη |
| Vocative | ἦθος | ἤθει | ἤθη |
| Notes: | The irregular accentuation of this paradigm is explained by the fact that it is the contracted version of the above paradigm. |
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Derived terms
Descendants
- English: ethos
References
- ἦθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἦθος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἦθος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ἦθος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ἦθος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἦθος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G2239”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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