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Ἶρις

Third declension Noun; 고유 그리스 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἶρις Ἶριδος

Structure: Ἰριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Iris
  2. the rainbow, iris
  3. bright-coloured circle
  4. Iris

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Ἶρις Ί̓ριδε Ί̓ριδες
Genitive Ί̓ριδος Ἰρίδοιν Ἰρίδων
Dative Ί̓ριδι Ἰρίδοιν Ί̓ρισιν*
Accusative Ί̓ριδα Ί̓ριδε Ί̓ριδας
Vocative Ί̓ρι Ί̓ριδε Ί̓ριδες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Πεπράξεται ταῦτα, ὦ Ἶρι. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, iris and poseidon, chapter 13)
  • στεῖχ’ ἐσ Οὔλυμπον πεδαίρουσ’, Ἶρι, γενναῖον πόδα· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, trochees11)
  • ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ τοὔνομα διερμηνεύουσι πολυόφθαλμον, ὡσ τοῦ μὲν οσ, τὸ πολύ, τοῦ δ’ ιρι τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν Αἰγυπτίᾳ γλώττῃ φράζοντοσ τὸν δ’ οὐρανὸν ὡσ ἀγήρων δι’ ἀιδιότητα καρδίᾳ θυμὸν ἐσχάρασ ὑποκειμένησ. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 10 7:1)
  • "͂Ἰρι φίλη, νῦν, εἴ ποτ’ ἐμὰσ ἐτέλεσσασ ἐφετμάσ, εἰ δ’ ἄγε λαιψηρῇσι μετοιχομένη πτερύγεσσιν, δεῦρο Θέτιν μοι ἄνωχθι μολεῖν ἁλὸσ ἐξανιοῦσαν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 13:15)
  • βάσκ’ ἴθι Ἶρι ταχεῖα, πάλιν τρέπε μηδ’ ἐά ἄντην ἔρχεσθ’· (Homer, Iliad, Book 8 41:2)

Synonyms

  1. Iris

  2. the rainbow

  3. bright-coloured circle

  4. Iris

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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