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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

  • πληθυντικῶν δὲ καὶ ἑνικῶν ἀλλάττων τὰσ φύσεισ καὶ ἀντικατηγορῶν ταῦτα ἀλλήλων, θηλυκά τ’ ἀρρενικοῖσ καὶ ἀρρενικὰ θηλυκοῖσ καὶ οὐδέτερα τούτων τισὶν συνάπτων, ἐξ ὧν ἡ κατὰ φύσιν ἀκολουθία πλανᾶται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 2:3)
  • οὐ πάντεσ, ὦ θύγατερ, μοχθηροί εἰσιν ἱκανὸν δὲ κἂν ἐνίοισ τισὶν χρηστοῖσ ἐντύχῃσ. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 7:4)
  • πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ μοχθηροῖσ τισιν ἐντεύξῃ αὐτῶν ‐ χρὴ γάρ, οἶμαι, τἀληθῆ λέγειν ‐ ἐνίοισ δὲ ἡμισόφοισ καὶ ἡμιφαύλοισ. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 8:10)
  • ἀλλ’ εἰ μὲν ἐπῳδαῖσ τισιν ἢ φαρμάκοισ ὅν φησιν ἐραστὴν ἑαυτῆσ ἡ Στοὰ τὸν Διονύσιον κατηνάγκασεν ταύτησ μὲν ἀπέχεσθαι, πρὸσ ἑαυτὴν δὲ ἀποβλέπειν ἡ Ἡδονή, φαρμακὶσ ἂν εἰκότωσ ἔδοξεν καὶ ἀδικεῖν ἐκέκριτο ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἀλλοτρίουσ ἐραστὰσ μαγγανεύουσα. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 21:3)
  • λέξω δὲ καὶ αὐτόσ, ἀφ̓ οἱών τινῶν χρὴ τεκμαίρεσθαι τὰσ ὠκείασ τε καὶ γενναίασ, καὶ τίσιν ἂν προσέχων τισ τὸν νοῦν τὰσ ἀγεννεῖσ τε καὶ βραδείασ ἀποκρίνειεν αὐτῶν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 4 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. who?

Related

Derived

  • τις ( someone, anyone, a certain one)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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