ἴς

See also: -ις

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s, from *weyh₁-. Cognate with Latin vīs.

ῑ̓́ς • (ī́s) f (genitive ῑ̓νός); third declension

force, power
muscle (of the body)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.282–283:
  εἴ μοι ἔτ’ ἐστὶν / ἴς, οἵη πάρος ἔσκεν ἐνὶ γναμπτοῖσι μέλεσσιν
  eí moi ét’ estìn / ís, hoíē páros ésken enì gnamptoîsi mélessin
  if I still have the power that used to be in my supple limbs

Third declension of ἡ ῑ̓́ς; τῆς ῑ̓νός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῑ̓́ς hē ī́s	τὼ ἶνε tṑ îne	αἱ ἶνες hai înes
Genitive	τῆς ῑ̓νός tês īnós	τοῖν ῑ̓νοῖν toîn īnoîn	τῶν ῑ̓νῶν tôn īnôn
Dative	τῇ ῑ̓νῐ́ têi īní	τοῖν ῑ̓νοῖν toîn īnoîn	ταῖς ῑ̓σῐ́ / ῑ̓σῐ́ν taîs īsí(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἶνᾰ tḕn îna	τὼ ἶνε tṑ îne	τᾱ̀ς ἶνᾰς tā̀s înas
Vocative	ῑ̓́ς ī́s	ἶνε îne	ἶνες înes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ἴς (Β) in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἴς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἴς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἴς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἴς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἴς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter

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