Ἑλληνίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Feminine adjective, from Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís, feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hel.lɛː.nís/ → /el.liˈnis/ → /e.liˈnis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hel.lɛː.nís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)el.le̝ˈnis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /el.liˈnis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /el.liˈnis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.liˈnis/

Noun

Ἑλληνῐ́ς • (Hellēnís) f (genitive Ἑλληνῐ́δος); third declension

1. A Greek woman

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Ἑλληνῐ́ς; τῆς Ἑλληνῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Ἑλληνῐ́ς hē Hellēnís	τὼ Ἑλληνῐ́δε tṑ Hellēníde	αἱ Ἑλληνῐ́δες hai Hellēnídes
Genitive	τῆς Ἑλληνῐ́δος tês Hellēnídos	τοῖν Ἑλληνῐ́δοιν toîn Hellēnídoin	τῶν Ἑλληνῐ́δων tôn Hellēnídōn
Dative	τῇ Ἑλληνῐ́δῐ têi Hellēnídi	τοῖν Ἑλληνῐ́δοιν toîn Hellēnídoin	ταῖς Ἑλληνῐ́σῐ / Ἑλληνῐ́σῐν taîs Hellēnísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν Ἑλληνῐ́δᾰ tḕn Hellēnída	τὼ Ἑλληνῐ́δε tṑ Hellēníde	τᾱ̀ς Ἑλληνῐ́δᾰς tā̀s Hellēnídas
Vocative	Ἑλληνῐ́ς Hellēnís	Ἑλληνῐ́δε Hellēníde	Ἑλληνῐ́δες Hellēnídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “Ἑλληνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἑλληνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Ἑλληνίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1674 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • greece idem, page 372.