δῆρις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formally, it seems to correspond to Sanskrit -dāri- दारि 'splitting' (as a secondmember in epic), making it derived from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”) but the Sanskrit word is attested only rather late, which makes the comparison uncertain. See also δέρω

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dɛ̂ː.ris/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈde̝.ris/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈði.ris/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈði.ris/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈði.ris/

Noun

δῆρις • (dêris) f (genitive δήρῐος); third declension

battle, combat

Declension

Third declension of ἡ δῆρῐς; τῆς δήρῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῆρῐς hē dêris	τὼ δήρῐε tṑ dḗrie	αἱ δήρῐες hai dḗries
Genitive	τῆς δήρῐος tês dḗrios	τοῖν δηρῐ́οιν toîn dēríoin	τῶν δηρῐ́ων tôn dēríōn
Dative	τῇ δήρῑ têi dḗrī	τοῖν δηρῐ́οιν toîn dēríoin	ταῖς δήρῐσῐ / δήρῐσῐν taîs dḗrisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν δῆρῐν tḕn dêrin	τὼ δήρῐε tṑ dḗrie	τᾱ̀ς δήρῑς / δήρῐᾰς tā̀s dḗrīs / dḗrias
Vocative	δῆρῐ dêri	δήρῐε dḗrie	δήρῐες dḗries
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

μάχη

References

“δῆρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“δῆρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“δῆρις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
δῆρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
δῆρις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“δῆρις”, 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.
- combat idem, page 144.
- contest idem, page 168.
- fight idem, page 318.
- fray idem, page 343.
- strife idem, page 825.
- struggle idem, page 828.