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 εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ Θεόσ. τίσ ἀνήγγειλέ σοι ὅτι γυμνὸσ εἶ, εἰ μὴ ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου, οὗ ἐνετειλάμην σοι τούτου μόνου μὴ φαγεῖν, ἀπ̓ αὐτοῦ ἔφαγεσ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 3:11)
  • Ἰδὼν δὲ Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ, ὅτι ἐπληθύνθησαν αἱ κακίαι τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ πᾶσ τισ διανοεῖται ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἐπιμελῶσ ἐπὶ τὰ πονηρὰ πάσασ τὰσ ἡμέρασ, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 6:5)
  • καὶ ποιήσω τὸ σπέρμα σου ὡσ τὴν ἄμμον τῆσ γῆσ. εἰ δύναταί τισ ἐξαριθμῆσαι τὴν ἄμμον τῆσ γῆσ, καὶ τὸ σπέρμα σου ἐξαριθμηθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 13:16)
  • Παραγενόμενοσ δὲ τῶν ἀνασωθέντων τισ ἀπήγγειλεν Ἅβραμ τῷ περάτῃ. αὐτὸσ δὲ κατῴκει παρὰ τῇ δρυί̈ τῇ Μαμβρῇ Ἀμορραίου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Ἐσχὼλ καὶ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Αὐνάν, οἳ ἦσαν συνωμόται τοῦ Ἅβραμ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 14:13)
  • καὶ εἶπε. τίσ ἀναγγελεῖ τῷ Ἁβραάμ, ὅτι θηλάζει παιδίον Σάρρα̣ ὅτι ἔτεκον υἱὸν ἐν τῷ γήρᾳ μου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 21:7)

Synonyms

  1. who?

Related

Derived

  • τις ( someone, anyone, a certain one)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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