μνῆστις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μνᾶστις (mnâstis) – Doric, Aeolic
Etymology
From μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō, “to remember”) + -τις (-tis, verbal noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mnɛ̂ːs.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmne̝s.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmnis.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmnis.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmnis.tis/
Noun
μνῆστῐς • (mnêstis) f (genitive μνήστεως); third declension
- remembrance, recollection
Declension
Third declension of ἡ μνῆστῐς; τῆς μνήστεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μνῆστῐς hē mnêstis | τὼ μνήστει tṑ mnḗstei | αἱ μνήστεις hai mnḗsteis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μνήστεως tês mnḗsteōs | τοῖν μνηστέοιν toîn mnēstéoin | τῶν μνήστεων tôn mnḗsteōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μνήστει têi mnḗstei | τοῖν μνηστέοιν toîn mnēstéoin | ταῖς μνήστεσῐ / μνήστεσῐν taîs mnḗstesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μνῆστῐν tḕn mnêstin | τὼ μνήστει tṑ mnḗstei | τᾱ̀ς μνήστεις tā̀s mnḗsteis | ||||||||||
Vocative | μνῆστῐ mnêsti | μνήστει mnḗstei | μνήστεις mnḗsteis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀμνηστία (amnēstía)
Further reading
- “μνῆστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μνῆστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μνῆστις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- gratitude idem, page 371.
- memory idem, page 524.
- recollection idem, page 680.
- remembrance idem, page 693.