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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

  • ὁρᾶτε δήπουθεν, ὅταν ἴριδεσ δύο φανῶσι, νέφουσ νέφοσ ἐμπεριέχοντοσ, ἀμαυράν ποιοῦσαν καὶ ἀσαφῆ τὰ χρώματα τὴν περιέχουσαν τὸ γὰρ ἐκτὸσ νέφοσ ἀπωτέρω τῆσ ὄψεωσ κείμενον οὐκ εὔτονον οὐδ’ ἰσχυρὰν τὴν ἀνάκλασιν ἀποδίδωσι. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 23 6:16)
  • τοῦ δ’ ἑτέρου καὶ τοὺσ ἀπὸ τῶν μαθημάτων ἀντιποιεῖσθαι, οἱο͂ν πῶσ ὁρῶμεν, τίσ ἡ αἰτία τῆσ κατοπτρικῆσ φαντασίασ, ὅπωσ νέφη συνίσταται, βρονταὶ καὶ ἴριδεσ καὶ ἅλωσ καὶ κομῆται καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 133:4)

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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