ἴς
See also: -ις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s, from *weyh₁-. Cognate with Latin vīs.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ǐːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /is/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /is/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /is/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /is/
Noun
ῑ̓́ς • (ī́s) f (genitive ῑ̓νός); third declension
- force, power
- muscle (of the body)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.282–283:
- εἴ μοι ἔτ’ ἐστὶν / ἴς, οἵη πάρος ἔσκεν ἐνὶ γναμπτοῖσι μέλεσσιν
- eí moi ét’ estìn / ís, hoíē páros ésken enì gnamptoîsi mélessin
- if I still have the power that used to be in my supple limbs
- εἴ μοι ἔτ’ ἐστὶν / ἴς, οἵη πάρος ἔσκεν ἐνὶ γναμπτοῖσι μέλεσσιν
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῑ̓́ς; τῆς ῑ̓νός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῑ̓́ς hē ī́s | τὼ ἶνε tṑ îne | αἱ ἶνες hai înes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῑ̓νός tês īnós | τοῖν ῑ̓νοῖν toîn īnoîn | τῶν ῑ̓νῶν tôn īnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῑ̓νῐ́ têi īní | τοῖν ῑ̓νοῖν toîn īnoîn | ταῖς ῑ̓σῐ́ / ῑ̓σῐ́ν taîs īsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἶνᾰ tḕn îna | τὼ ἶνε tṑ îne | τᾱ̀ς ἶνᾰς tā̀s înas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῑ̓́ς ī́s | ἶνε îne | ἶνες înes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰναία (inaía)
- ἰνίον (iníon)
- ἰνόω (inóō)
- ἰνώδης (inṓdēs)
Related terms
- ἶφι (îphi)
References
- ἴς (Β) in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἴς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἴς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἴς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἴς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἴς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter