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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

  • ὁ περίβολοσ δὲ τῆσ πόλεωσ ὑψηλόσ τε καὶ ποικίλοσ, ἴριδι τὴν χρόαν ὁμοιότατοσ· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 33:4)
  • Ἀχαιὸσ δ’ ὁ Ἐρετριεὺσ γλαφυρὸσ ὢν ποιητὴσ περὶ τὴν σύνθεσιν ἔσθ’ ὅτε καὶ μελαίνει τὴν φράσιν καὶ πολλὰ αἰνιγματωδῶσ ἐκφέρει, ὥσπερ ἐν Ἴριδι σατυρικῇ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 74 1:3)
  • "ἐν τῇ τῆσ Ἑκάτησ, φησίν, νήσῳ τῇ Ἴριδι θύουσι Δήλιοι τοὺσ βασυνίασ καλουμένουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 53 2:2)
  • ἐσ δὲ τὴν τρίτην ἡμέρην, κήρωμα ξὺν μυροβαλάνῳ , ἢ ἀψινθίου κόμῃ καὶ ἴριδι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 241)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ τοῖσ ἐν τῷ λειμῶνι ἑκάστοισ ἑπτὰ ἡμέραι γένοιντο, ἀναστάντασ ἐντεῦθεν δεῖν τῇ ὀγδόῃ πορεύεσθαι, καὶ ἀφικνεῖσθαι τεταρταίουσ ὅθεν καθορᾶν ἄνωθεν διὰ παντὸσ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆσ τεταμένον φῶσ εὐθύ, οἱο͂ν κίονα, μάλιστα τῇ ἴριδι προσφερῆ, λαμπρότερον δὲ καὶ καθαρώτερον· (Plato, Republic, book 10 443:1)

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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