Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τίς

Pronoun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τίς

Structure: τιν (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. (interrogative, masculine/feminine) who?
  2. (interrogative, in neuter) what?, which?

Declension

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

  • καὶ ἔπλασεν ὁ Θεὸσ ἔτι ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ πάντα τὰ θηρία τοῦ ἀγροῦ καὶ πάντα τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἤγαγεν αὐτὰ πρὸσ τὸν Ἀδάμ, ἰδεῖν τί καλέσει αὐτά. καὶ πᾶν ὃ ἐὰν ἐκάλεσεν αὐτὸ Ἀδὰμ ψυχὴν ζῶσαν, τοῦτο ὄνομα αὐτῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 2:19)
  • Ο δὲ ὄφισ ἦν φρονιμώτατοσ πάντων τῶν θηρίων τῶν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ, ὧν ἐποίησε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ. καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ὄφισ τῇ γυναικί. τί ὅτι εἶπεν ὁ Θεόσ, οὐ μὴ φάγητε ἀπὸ παντὸσ ξύλου τοῦ παραδείσου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 3:1)
  • καὶ εἶπε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τῇ γυναικί. τί τοῦτο ἐποίησασ̣ καὶ εἶπεν ἡ γυνή. ὁ ὄφισ ἠπάτησέ με, καὶ ἔφαγον. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 3:13)
  • καὶ εἶπε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τῷ Κάϊν. ἵνα τί περίλυποσ ἐγένου, καὶ ἵνα τί συνέπεσε τὸ πρόσωπόν σου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. who?

Related

Derived

  • τις ( someone, anyone, a certain one)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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