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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

  • ἔπειτα δ’ ἡ Ἶρισ καὶ ὁ Ἑρμῆσ ὄντεσ ὑπηρέται καὶ ἀγγελιαφόροι τοῦ Διόσ, ἑξῆσ δὲ τοῦ Ἡφαίστου τὸ χαλκεῖον ἀνάμεστον ἁπάσησ τέχνησ, μετὰ δὲ αἱ τῶν θεῶν οἰκίαι καὶ τοῦ Διὸσ τὰ βασίλεια, ταῦτα πάντα περικαλλῆ τοῦ Ἡφαίστου κατασκευάσαντοσ. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 8:5)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ Ἀμισοῦ ἐσ Ἀγκῶνα λιμένα, ἵναπερ καὶ ὁ Ἶρισ ἐσβάλλει ἐσ τὸν Πόντον, στάδιοι ἐξήκοντα καὶ ἑκατόν. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 15 4:2)
  • παῦρα δὲ Θαύμαντοσ θυγάτηρ πόδασ ὠκέα Ἶρισ ἀγγελίην πωλεῖται ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσησ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 74:4)
  • Ἶρισ ταχεῖα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:16)
  • ἆρά γ’ οἶσθα τοῦθ’ ὅτι δικαιότατ’ ἂν ληφθεῖσα πασῶν Ἰρίδων ἀπέθανεσ, εἰ τῆσ ἀξίασ ἐτύγχανεσ; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:40)
  • "ἀνθεῖ δὲ καὶ ἡ ἶρισ τοῦ θέρουσ καὶ τὸ στρούθιον καλούμενον, ὃ τῇ μὲν ὄψει καλὸν ἄνθοσ, ἀόσμον δέ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 24 1:1)

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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