ὄρνις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὄρνῑξ (órnīx) – Ionic, Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *órn-īk-s ~ *órn-īkʷʰ-, according to Beekes, from a feminine derivative ending in *-ih₂ of the oblique stem h₃er-n- of Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō. The alternative ὄρνιξ (órnix) is a back-formation from the dative plural ὄρνιξι (órnixi) of the alternate stem ὄρνῑχ- (órnīkh-). See also ὄρνεον (órneon) from the same root.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ór.niːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈor.nis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.nis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.nis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.nis/

Noun

ὄρνῑς • (órnīs) m or f (genitive ὄρνῑθος); third declension

bird
chicken

Declension

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ ὄρνῑς; τοῦ, τῆς ὄρνῑθος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ ὄρνῑς ho, hē órnīs	τὼ ὄρνῑθε tṑ órnīthe	οἱ, αἱ ὄρνῑθες hoi, hai órnīthes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς ὄρνῑθος toû, tês órnīthos	τοῖν ὀρνῑ́θοιν toîn ornī́thoin	τῶν ὀρνῑ́θων tôn ornī́thōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ ὄρνῑθῐ tôi, têi órnīthi	τοῖν ὀρνῑ́θοιν toîn ornī́thoin	τοῖς, ταῖς ὄρνῑσῐ / ὄρνῑσῐν toîs, taîs órnīsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν ὄρνῑν / ὄρνῑθα tòn, tḕn órnīn / órnītha	τὼ ὄρνῑθε tṑ órnīthe	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ὄρνῑθᾰς toùs, tā̀s órnīthas
Vocative	ὄρνῑ órnī	ὄρνῑθε órnīthe	ὄρνῑθες órnīthes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-tʰs.

Derived terms

ὀρνῑ́θειος (ornī́theios)
ὀρνῑθεύω (ornītheúō)

Related terms

ἄορνος (áornos)
ὄρνεον (órneon)

Descendants

Greek: όρνιθα (órnitha)

References

“ὄρνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὄρνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ὄρνις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὄρνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ὄρνις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ὄρνις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3733 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 79
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, →ISBN