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-ικός
-ικός
Ancient Greek
Suffix
-ῐκός • (-ikós) (feminine -ῐκή, neuter -ῐκόν)
- Added to noun stems to form adjectives: of or pertaining to, in the manner of; -ic
Inflection
Declension of -ῐκός; -ῐκή; -ῐκόν
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
| Nominative | -ῐκός | -ῐκή | -ῐκόν | -ῐκώ | -ῐκᾱ́ | -ῐκώ | -ῐκοί | -ῐκαί | -ῐκᾰ́ | ||||
| Genitive | -ῐκοῦ | -ῐκῆς | -ῐκοῦ | -ῐκοῖν | -ῐκαῖν | -ῐκοῖν | -ῐκῶν | -ῐκῶν | -ῐκῶν | ||||
| Dative | -ῐκῷ | -ῐκῇ | -ῐκῷ | -ῐκοῖν | -ῐκαῖν | -ῐκοῖν | -ῐκοῖς | -ῐκαῖς | -ῐκοῖς | ||||
| Accusative | -ῐκόν | -ῐκήν | -ῐκόν | -ῐκώ | -ῐκᾱ́ | -ῐκώ | -ῐκούς | -ῐκᾱ́ς | -ῐκᾰ́ | ||||
| Vocative | -ῐκέ | -ῐκή | -ῐκόν | -ῐκώ | -ῐκᾱ́ | -ῐκώ | -ῐκοί | -ῐκαί | -ῐκᾰ́ | ||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| -ῐκῶς | -ῐκώτερος | -ῐκώτᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- -τικός (-tikós, “added to verbal stems”)
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Ancient_Greek_words_suffixed_with_-%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82'>Ancient Greek words suffixed with -ικός</a>
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 858