προβοσκίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From προ- (pro-, “before, in front of”) +‎ βόσκω (bóskō, “I feed, I graze”) +‎ -ις (-is, suffix to form a feminine noun).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

προβοσκίς • (proboskís) f (genitive προβοσκίδος); third declension

  1. means of providing food
    1. elephant’s trunk
      1. fly’s proboscis
    2. (in the plural) tentacles of the decapod cephalopoda

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ προβοσκῐ́ς; τῆς προβοσκῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ προβοσκῐ́ς
hē proboskĭ́s 		τὼ προβοσκῐ́δε
tṑ proboskĭ́de 		αἱ προβοσκῐ́δες
hai proboskĭ́des
Genitive τῆς προβοσκῐ́δος
tês proboskĭ́dos 		τοῖν προβοσκῐ́δοιν
toîn proboskĭ́doin 		τῶν προβοσκῐ́δων
tôn proboskĭ́dōn
Dative τῇ προβοσκῐ́δῐ
tēî proboskĭ́dĭ 		τοῖν προβοσκῐ́δοιν
toîn proboskĭ́doin 		ταῖς προβοσκῐ́σῐ / προβοσκῐ́σῐν
taîs proboskĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative τὴν προβοσκῐ́δᾰ
tḕn proboskĭ́dă 		τὼ προβοσκῐ́δε
tṑ proboskĭ́de 		τᾱ̀ς προβοσκῐ́δᾰς
tā̀s proboskĭ́dăs
Vocative προβοσκῐ́ς
proboskĭ́s 		προβοσκῐ́δε
proboskĭ́de 		προβοσκῐ́δες
proboskĭ́des
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: προβοσκίδα (provoskída)
  • → Latin: proboscis

References

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