προβοσκίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From προ- (pro-, “before, in front of”) + βόσκω (bóskō, “I feed, I graze”) + -ις (-is, suffix to form a feminine noun).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pro.bos.kís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pro.bosˈkis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pro.βosˈcis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pro.vosˈcis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pro.vosˈcis/
Noun
προβοσκίς • (proboskís) f (genitive προβοσκίδος); third declension
- means of providing food
- elephant’s trunk
- fly’s proboscis
- (in the plural) tentacles of the decapod cephalopoda
- elephant’s trunk
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ προβοσκῐ́ς; τῆς προβοσκῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ προβοσκῐ́ς hē proboskís | τὼ προβοσκῐ́δε tṑ proboskíde | αἱ προβοσκῐ́δες hai proboskídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς προβοσκῐ́δος tês proboskídos | τοῖν προβοσκῐ́δοιν toîn proboskídoin | τῶν προβοσκῐ́δων tôn proboskídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ προβοσκῐ́δῐ têi proboskídi | τοῖν προβοσκῐ́δοιν toîn proboskídoin | ταῖς προβοσκῐ́σῐ / προβοσκῐ́σῐν taîs proboskísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν προβοσκῐ́δᾰ tḕn proboskída | τὼ προβοσκῐ́δε tṑ proboskíde | τᾱ̀ς προβοσκῐ́δᾰς tā̀s proboskídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | προβοσκῐ́ς proboskís | προβοσκῐ́δε proboskíde | προβοσκῐ́δες proboskídes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- ⇒ Greek: προβοσκίδα (provoskída)
- → Latin: proboscis
References
- “προβοσκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press