ἀραβίς

Ancient Greek

Probably from Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱ (Arabíā, “Arabia”) +‎ -ίς (-ís), after its native environment. For the formation compare ἰβηρίς (ibērís, “pepperwort”).

ἀρᾰβῐ́ς • (arabís) f (genitive ἀρᾰβῐ́δος); third declension

Third declension of ἡ ἀρᾰβῐ́ς; τῆς ἀρᾰβῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀρᾰβῐ́ς hē arabís	τὼ ἀρᾰβῐ́δε tṑ arabíde	αἱ ἀρᾰβῐ́δες hai arabídes
Genitive	τῆς ἀρᾰβῐ́δος tês arabídos	τοῖν ἀρᾰβῐ́δοιν toîn arabídoin	τῶν ἀρᾰβῐ́δων tôn arabídōn
Dative	τῇ ἀρᾰβῐ́δῐ têi arabídi	τοῖν ἀρᾰβῐ́δοιν toîn arabídoin	ταῖς ἀρᾰβῐ́σῐ / ἀρᾰβῐ́σῐν taîs arabísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀρᾰβῐ́δᾰ tḕn arabída	τὼ ἀρᾰβῐ́δε tṑ arabíde	τᾱ̀ς ἀρᾰβῐ́δᾰς tā̀s arabídas
Vocative	ἀρᾰβῐ́ς arabís	ἀρᾰβῐ́δε arabíde	ἀρᾰβῐ́δες arabídes
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.