Εὐμενίς

Ancient Greek

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Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Εὐμενίς • (Eumenís) f (genitive Εὐμενίδος); third declension

  1. one of the Eumenides; a Eumenis

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Εὐμενῐ́ς; τῆς Εὐμενῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ Εὐμενῐ́ς
hē Eumenís		 τὼ Εὐμενῐ́δε
tṑ Eumeníde		 αἱ Εὐμενῐ́δες
hai Eumenídes
Genitive τῆς Εὐμενῐ́δος
tês Eumenídos		 τοῖν Εὐμενῐ́δοιν
toîn Eumenídoin		 τῶν Εὐμενῐ́δων
tôn Eumenídōn
Dative τῇ Εὐμενῐ́δῐ
têi Eumenídi		 τοῖν Εὐμενῐ́δοιν
toîn Eumenídoin		 ταῖς Εὐμενῐ́σῐ / Εὐμενῐ́σῐν
taîs Eumenísi(n)
Accusative τὴν Εὐμενῐ́δᾰ
tḕn Eumenída		 τὼ Εὐμενῐ́δε
tṑ Eumeníde		 τᾱ̀ς Εὐμενῐ́δᾰς
tā̀s Eumenídas
Vocative Εὐμενῐ́ς
Eumenís		 Εὐμενῐ́δε
Eumeníde		 Εὐμενῐ́δες
Eumenídes
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 *-ds.

Descendants
  • Greek:
    • Ευμενίς (Evmenís)
    • Ευμενίδα (Evmenída)
    • plural: Ευμενίδες (Evmenídes)
  • → Latin: Eumenis (Eumenides)
    • → Italian: Eumenide
    • → Sicilian: Eumèniti

Further reading
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011
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