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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Earlier *ϝῑ́ς (*wī́s), from Proto-Hellenic *wīs, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s, from *weyh₁-. Cognate with Latin vīs.
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Pronunciation
Noun
ῑ̓́ς • (ī́s) f (genitive ῑ̓νός); third declension
- force, power
- muscle, sinew, tendon
800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Homer,
Iliad 21.282–283:
- εἴ μοι ἔτ’ ἐστὶν / ἴς, οἵη πάρος ἔσκεν ἐνὶ γναμπτοῖσι μέλεσσιν
- eí moi ét’ estìn / ís, hoíē páros ésken enì gnamptoîsi mélessin
- if I still have the power that used to be in my supple limbs
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References
- “ἴς (Β)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἴς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἴς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἴς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἴς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἴς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter