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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

  • "ὡσ γὰρ οἱ παῖδεσ ἴριδασ μᾶλλον καὶ ἅλωσ καὶ κομήτασ ἢ σελήνην καὶ ἥλιον ὁρῶντεσ γεγήθασι καὶ ἀγαπῶσι, καὶ οὗτοι τὰ αἰνίγματα καὶ τὰσ ἀλληγορίασ καὶ τὰσ μεταφορὰσ τῆσ μαντικῆσ ἀνακλάσεισ οὔσασ πρὸσ τὸ θνητὸν καὶ φανταστικόν, ἐπιποθοῦσι κἂν τὴν αἰτίαν μὴ ἱκανῶσ πύθωνται τῆσ μεταβολῆσ, ἀπίασι τοῦ θεοῦ καταγνόντεσ, οὐχ ἡμῶν οὐδ’ αὑτῶν ὡσ ἀδυνάτων ὄντων ἐξικνεῖσθαι τῷ λογισμῷ πρὸσ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ διάνοιαν. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 303)

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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