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

  • ἦν δέ γε ἀδύνατον δυοῖν τινοῖν μετέχειν ἃ μηδ’ ἑνὸσ μετέχοι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 372:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὁ δυοῖν τινοῖν ἐστι μικτὸσ ἐκεῖνοσ ἀλλὰ συμπάντων τῶν ἀπείρων ὑπὸ τοῦ πέρατοσ δεδεμένων, ὥστε ὀρθῶσ ὁ νικηφόροσ οὗτοσ βίοσ μέροσ ἐκείνου γίγνοιτ’ ἄν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 101:8)
  • οὐ γὰρ ῥᾴδιον αὐτοὺσ πεῖσαι ὅτι καὶ ἄνθρωποι καὶ τἆλλα πάντα ὅσα μεταξύ τινοιν δυοῖν ἐστιν καὶ ἀμφοτέροιν τυγχάνει μετέχοντα, ὅσα μὲν ἐκ κακοῦ καὶ ἀγαθοῦ, τοῦ μὲν βελτίω, τοῦ δὲ χείρω γίγνεται· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 435:1)
  • φαίνεταί μοι, ὥσπερ καὶ ὀνομάζεται δύο ταῦτα ὀνόματα, πόλεμόσ τε καὶ στάσισ, οὕτω καὶ εἶναι δύο, ὄντα ἐπὶ δυοῖν τινοιν διαφοραῖν. (Plato, Republic, book 5 506:1)

Synonyms

  1. who?

Related

Derived

  • τις ( someone, anyone, a certain one)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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