σπυρίς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σφυρίς (sphurís)
Etymology
According to Beekes, it can be hardly related to σπάρτον (spárton, “rope”), as the variation points to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spy.rís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /spyˈris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /spyˈris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /spyˈris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /spiˈris/
Noun
σπῠρίς • (spurís) f (genitive σπῠρίδος); third declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σπῠρῐ́ς hē spurís |
τὼ σπῠρῐ́δε tṑ spuríde |
αἱ σπῠρῐ́δες hai spurídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σπῠρῐ́δος tês spurídos |
τοῖν σπῠρῐ́δοιν toîn spurídoin |
τῶν σπῠρῐ́δων tôn spurídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σπῠρῐ́δῐ têi spurídi |
τοῖν σπῠρῐ́δοιν toîn spurídoin |
ταῖς σπῠρῐ́σῐ / σπῠρῐ́σῐν taîs spurísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σπῠρῐ́δᾰ tḕn spurída |
τὼ σπῠρῐ́δε tṑ spuríde |
τᾱ̀ς σπῠρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s spurídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | σπῠρῐ́ς spurís |
σπῠρῐ́δε spuríde |
σπῠρῐ́δες spurídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σπυρίδιον (spurídion)
- σπυριδώδης (spuridṓdēs)
- σπυριδοφόρος (spuridophóros)
Descendants
Further reading
- “σπυρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπυρίς 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, →ISBN
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