Εὐμενίς

Ancient Greek

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Εὐμενίς • (Eumenís) f (genitive Εὐμενίδος); third declension

  1. one of the Eumenides; a Eumenis

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Εὐμενῐ́ς; τῆς Εὐμενῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ Εὐμενῐ́ς
hē Eumenĭ́s 		τὼ Εὐμενῐ́δε
tṑ Eumenĭ́de 		αἱ Εὐμενῐ́δες
hai Eumenĭ́des
Genitive τῆς Εὐμενῐ́δος
tês Eumenĭ́dos 		τοῖν Εὐμενῐ́δοιν
toîn Eumenĭ́doin 		τῶν Εὐμενῐ́δων
tôn Eumenĭ́dōn
Dative τῇ Εὐμενῐ́δῐ
tēî Eumenĭ́dĭ 		τοῖν Εὐμενῐ́δοιν
toîn Eumenĭ́doin 		ταῖς Εὐμενῐ́σῐ / Εὐμενῐ́σῐν
taîs Eumenĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative τὴν Εὐμενῐ́δᾰ
tḕn Eumenĭ́dă 		τὼ Εὐμενῐ́δε
tṑ Eumenĭ́de 		τᾱ̀ς Εὐμενῐ́δᾰς
tā̀s Eumenĭ́dăs
Vocative Εὐμενῐ́ς
Eumenĭ́s 		Εὐμενῐ́δε
Eumenĭ́de 		Εὐμενῐ́δες
Eumenĭ́des
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.

Descendants

  • Greek:
    • Ευμενίς (Evmenís)
    • Ευμενίδα (Evmenída)
    • plural: Ευμενίδες (Evmenídes)
  • → Latin: Eumenis (Eumenides)
    • → Italian: Eumenide
    • → Sicilian: Eumèniti

Further reading

  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.