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ἱστός
ἱστός
Ancient Greek
Noun
ῐ̔στός • (histós) m (genitive ῐ̔στοῦ); second declension
- mast
- shinbone
- Oppian, Cynegetica 1.408
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- an (unknown) constellation
- (weaving) beam (of a loom; see usage notes)
- (weaving) loom
- (weaving) web
Usage notes
Unlike modern looms, the beam of an Ancient Greek loom stood upright.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῐ̔στός | τὼ ῐ̔στώ | οἱ ῐ̔στοί | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῐ̔στοῦ | τοῖν ῐ̔στοῖν | τῶν ῐ̔στῶν | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῐ̔στῷ | τοῖν ῐ̔στοῖν | τοῖς ῐ̔στοῖς | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῐ̔στόν | τὼ ῐ̔στώ | τοὺς ῐ̔στούς | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῐ̔στέ | ῐ̔στώ | ῐ̔στοί | ||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. |
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Descendants
References
- ἱστός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἱστός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἱστός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ἱστός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ἱστός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἱστός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.