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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

  • πάσχει δὲ αὐτὸ μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῶν κύκλων, οὓσ ἐπ’ ἄκροισ ἔχει τοῖσ πτεροῖσ, ἴριδόσ τινοσ ἕκαστον περιθεούσησ· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 11:4)
  • Φιλῖνοσ δέ φησι τὰ ἄνθη τῆσ ἴριδοσ λέγεσθαι λύκουσ διὰ τὸ ἐμφερῆ εἶναι λύκου χείλεσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 28 5:1)
  • "αὗται δ’ εἶχον σκηνὰσ βαρβαρικάσ, ὑφ’ ὧν ἐκάθηντο γυναῖκεσ Ἰνδαὶ καὶ ἕτεραι κεκοσμημέναι ὡσ αἰχμάλωτοι, κάμηλοι δ’ αἱ μὲν ἔφερον λιβανωτοῦ μνᾶσ τριακοσίασ, σμύρνησ τριακοσίασ, κρόκου καὶ κασίασ καὶ κινναμώμου καὶ ἴριδοσ καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ἀρωμάτων διακοσίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3112)
  • τινὲσ δὲ κατοπτρικὴν εἶναι φαντασίαν τοῦ ἡλίου τὰσ αὐγὰσ πρὸσ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνακλῶντοσ, ὅπερ καὶ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἴριδοσ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν νεφῶν συμβαίνει Μητρόδωροσ διὰ τὴν πάροδον τοῦ ἡλίου· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 2:2)
  • ἔστιν οὖν τὸ τῆσ ἴριδοσ πάθοσ τοιοῦτον. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 5:7)

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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