ποστός
See also: πόστος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pos.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /posˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /posˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /posˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /posˈtos/
Adjective
ποστός • (postós) m (feminine ποστή, neuter ποστόν); first/second declension
- holding a certain place in the ordinal series, “somethingth”
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | ποστός postós |
ποστή postḗ |
ποστόν postón |
ποστώ postṓ |
ποστᾱ́ postā́ |
ποστώ postṓ |
ποστοί postoí |
ποσταί postaí |
ποστᾰ́ postắ | |||||
| Genitive | ποστοῦ postoû |
ποστῆς postês |
ποστοῦ postoû |
ποστοῖν postoîn |
ποσταῖν postaîn |
ποστοῖν postoîn |
ποστῶν postôn |
ποστῶν postôn |
ποστῶν postôn | |||||
| Dative | ποστῷ postōî |
ποστῇ postēî |
ποστῷ postōî |
ποστοῖν postoîn |
ποσταῖν postaîn |
ποστοῖν postoîn |
ποστοῖς postoîs |
ποσταῖς postaîs |
ποστοῖς postoîs | |||||
| Accusative | ποστόν postón |
ποστήν postḗn |
ποστόν postón |
ποστώ postṓ |
ποστᾱ́ postā́ |
ποστώ postṓ |
ποστούς postoús |
ποστᾱ́ς postā́s |
ποστᾰ́ postắ | |||||
| Vocative | ποστέ posté |
ποστή postḗ |
ποστόν postón |
ποστώ postṓ |
ποστᾱ́ postā́ |
ποστώ postṓ |
ποστοί postoí |
ποσταί postaí |
ποστᾰ́ postắ | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ποστῶς postôs |
ποστότερος postóteros |
ποστότᾰτος postótătos | ||||||||||||
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See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
Further reading
- ποστός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πόστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press