ψιάς

Ancient Greek

This word is found beside ψακάς (psakás, “drop”); this points to a Pre-Greek origin.

ψῐᾰ́ς • (psĭắs) f (genitive ψῐᾰ́δος); third declension

drop
Synonyms: πέμφιξ (pémphix), ῥαθάμιγξ (rhatháminx), ῥανίς (rhanís), σταγών (stagṓn), στράγξ (stránx), ψακάς (psakás)

Third declension of ἡ ψῐᾰ́ς; τῆς ψῐᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ψῐᾰ́ς hē psĭắs	τὼ ψῐᾰ́δε tṑ psĭắde	αἱ ψῐᾰ́δες hai psĭắdes
Genitive	τῆς ψῐᾰ́δος tês psĭắdos	τοῖν ψῐᾰ́δοιν toîn psĭắdoin	τῶν ψῐᾰ́δων tôn psĭắdōn
Dative	τῇ ψῐᾰ́δῐ tēî psĭắdĭ	τοῖν ψῐᾰ́δοιν toîn psĭắdoin	ταῖς ψῐᾰ́σῐ / ψῐᾰ́σῐν taîs psĭắsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ψῐᾰ́δᾰ tḕn psĭắdă	τὼ ψῐᾰ́δε tṑ psĭắde	τᾱ̀ς ψῐᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s psĭắdăs
Vocative	ψῐᾰ́ς psĭắs	ψῐᾰ́δε psĭắde	ψῐᾰ́δες psĭắdes
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.

“ψιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ψιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ψιάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ψιάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ψιάς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN