πρίστις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πρίζω (prízō, “to saw”) + -τις (-tis, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prís.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpris.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpris.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpris.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpris.tis/
Noun
πρῐ́στῐς • (prístis) f (genitive πρῐ́στεως); third declension
- Sawfish, Pristis antiquorum.
- Ship of war, from its shape of a sawfish.
- A kind of cup, from its shape of a sawfish.
- Ornamental part of a surgical machine.
- A stonemason's implement.
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ πρῐ́στῐς; τῆς πρῐ́στεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πρῐ́στῐς hē prístis | τὼ πρῐ́στει tṑ prístei | αἱ πρῐ́στεις hai prísteis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πρῐ́στεως tês prísteōs | τοῖν πρῐστέοιν toîn pristéoin | τῶν πρῐ́στεων tôn prísteōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πρῐ́στει têi prístei | πρῐστέοιν pristéoin | ταῖς πρῐ́στεσῐ / πρῐ́στεσῐν taîs prístesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πρῐ́στῐν tḕn prístin | πρῐ́στει prístei | τᾱ̀ς πρῐ́στεις tā̀s prísteis | ||||||||||
Vocative | πρῐ́στῐ prísti | πρῐ́στει prístei | πρῐ́στεις prísteis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: pristis
- → Translingual: Pristis
References
- πρίστις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press