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

  • πῶσ τούτω καὶ τίνε λέγεισ; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 257:3)
  • τίνε τούτω; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 76:3)
  • σὺ δ’ ἀλλ’ εἰπὲ πρῶτον καὶ δίελε ἡμῖν τίνε τὼ δύο λέγεισ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 117:2)
  • θείω δή τινε τώδε μετὰ προτέροισι γενέσθην φῶθ’, ὁ μὲν εἴσπνηλοσ, φαίη χ’ ὡμυκλαϊάσδων, τὸν δ’ ἕτερον πάλιν ὥσ κεν ὁ Θεσσαλὸσ εἴποι ἀίταν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 6)
  • ἐὰν προελώμεθα αὐτῶν εἴτε βούλει τὴν οὐσίαν καὶ τὸ ἕτερον εἴτε τὴν οὐσίαν καὶ τὸ ἓν εἴτε τὸ ἓν καὶ τὸ ἕτερον, ἆρ’ οὐκ ἐν ἑκάστῃ τῇ προαιρέσει προαιρούμεθά τινε ὣ ὀρθῶσ ἔχει καλεῖσθαι ἀμφοτέρω; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 258:2)
  • οὐκοῦν ἐστόν γέ τινε τούτω εἴδη, τό τε μέγεθοσ καὶ ἡ σμικρότησ; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 304:4)
  • πρὸσ δέ γε τούτοισ, εἰ καὶ τὸ παράπαν ἡμῖν τὰ μέν ἐστι ποί’ ἄττα, ἡδονὴ δὲ καὶ λύπη μόνον ἅπερ ἐστί, ποιώ τινε δὲ οὐ γίγνεσθον, καὶ ταῦθ’ ἡμῖν διομολογητέον. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 160:2)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν τοῦτό γε χαλεπὸν ἰδεῖν, ὅτι καὶ ποιώ τινε· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 160:4)

Synonyms

  1. who?

Related

Derived

  • τις ( someone, anyone, a certain one)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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