ἀρίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is common to other technical terms like δοκίς (dokís, “beam”) and σανίς (sanís, “board, plank”) but the origin is still unknown.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.rís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈris/
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Noun
ἀρίς • (arís) f (genitive ἀρίδος); third declension
- A bow-drill
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ἀρῐ́ς; τῆς ἀρῐ́δος (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἀρῐ́ς hē arís | τὼ ἀρῐ́δε tṑ aríde | αἱ ἀρῐ́δες hai arídes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀρῐ́δος tês arídos | τοῖν ἀρῐ́δοιν toîn arídoin | τῶν ἀρῐ́δων tôn arídōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀρῐ́δῐ têi arídi | τοῖν ἀρῐ́δοιν toîn arídoin | ταῖς ἀρῐ́σῐ / ἀρῐ́σῐν taîs arísi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀρῐ́δᾰ tḕn arída | τὼ ἀρῐ́δε tṑ aríde | τᾱ̀ς ἀρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s arídas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀρῐ́ς arís | ἀρῐ́δε aríde | ἀρῐ́δες arídes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- ἀρίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill