Πολυνείκης
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πολύς (polús) + νεῖκος (neîkos) + -ης (-ēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /po.ly.něː.kɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /po.lyˈni.ke̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /po.lyˈni.cis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /po.lyˈni.cis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /po.liˈni.cis/
Proper noun
Πολῠνείκης • (Poluneíkēs) m (genitive Πολῠνείκους); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Πολῠνείκης ho Poluneíkēs | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Πολῠνείκους toû Poluneíkous | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Πολῠνείκει tôi Poluneíkei | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Πολῠνείκη tòn Poluneíkē | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Πολῠ́νεικες Polúneikes | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Πολυνείκης (Polyneíkis)
- Latin: Polynices
Further reading
- “Πολυνείκης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Πολυνείκης”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023