ἔριφος

Ancient Greek

Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-, with cognates including Latin ariēs (“ram”), Old Irish heirp, erb (“kid”), and Lithuanian ė́ras (“lamb”), but more likely of substrate origin (along with the Latin and Old Irish) in view of the strange suffixes and semantic category.

ἔρῐφος • (érĭphos) m or f (genitive ἐρῐ́φου); second declension

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ ἔρῐφος; τοῦ, τῆς ἐρῐ́φου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ ἔρῐφος ho, hē érĭphos	τὼ ἐρῐ́φω tṑ erĭ́phō	οἱ, αἱ ἔρῐφοι hoi, hai érĭphoi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς ἐρῐ́φου toû, tês erĭ́phou	τοῖν ἐρῐ́φοιν toîn erĭ́phoin	τῶν ἐρῐ́φων tôn erĭ́phōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ ἐρῐ́φῳ tōî, tēî erĭ́phōi	τοῖν ἐρῐ́φοιν toîn erĭ́phoin	τοῖς, ταῖς ἐρῐ́φοις toîs, taîs erĭ́phois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν ἔρῐφον tòn, tḕn érĭphon	τὼ ἐρῐ́φω tṑ erĭ́phō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ἐρῐ́φους toùs, tā̀s erĭ́phous
Vocative	ἔρῐφε érĭphe	ἐρῐ́φω erĭ́phō	ἔρῐφοι érĭphoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.