Ἑλληνίς
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine adjective, from Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”) + -ῐ́ς (-ís, feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hel.lɛː.nís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)el.le̝ˈnis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /el.liˈnis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /el.liˈnis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.liˈnis/
Noun
Ἑλληνῐ́ς • (Hellēnís) f (genitive Ἑλληνῐ́δος); third declension
- A Greek woman
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Ἑλληνῐ́ς hē Hellēnís |
τὼ Ἑλληνῐ́δε tṑ Hellēníde |
αἱ Ἑλληνῐ́δες hai Hellēnídes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ἑλληνῐ́δος tês Hellēnídos |
τοῖν Ἑλληνῐ́δοιν toîn Hellēnídoin |
τῶν Ἑλληνῐ́δων tôn Hellēnídōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ἑλληνῐ́δῐ têi Hellēnídi |
τοῖν Ἑλληνῐ́δοιν toîn Hellēnídoin |
ταῖς Ἑλληνῐ́σῐ / Ἑλληνῐ́σῐν taîs Hellēnísi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ἑλληνῐ́δᾰ tḕn Hellēnída |
τὼ Ἑλληνῐ́δε tṑ Hellēníde |
τᾱ̀ς Ἑλληνῐ́δᾰς tā̀s Hellēnídas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἑλληνῐ́ς Hellēnís |
Ἑλληνῐ́δε Hellēníde |
Ἑλληνῐ́δες Hellēnídes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “Ἑλληνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἑλληνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Ἑλληνίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1674 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.
- greece idem, page 372.