Ἑσπερίς

Ancient Greek

From Ἕσπερος (Hésperos, “Hesperus”) +‎ -ῐς (-ĭs).

Ἑσπερῐ́ς • (Hesperĭ́s) f (genitive Ἑσπερῐ́δος); third declension

one of the Hesperides; a Hesperid
a city in Cyrenaica, Libya, also called Εὐεσπερίδες (Euesperídes), relocated and renamed in the mid of the 3rd century BCE to Βερενίκη (Bereníkē), now known as Benghazi

Third declension of ἡ Ἑσπερῐ́ς; τῆς Ἑσπερῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Ἑσπερῐ́ς hē Hesperĭ́s	τὼ Ἑσπερῐ́δε tṑ Hesperĭ́de	αἱ Ἑσπερῐ́δες hai Hesperĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς Ἑσπερῐ́δος tês Hesperĭ́dos	τοῖν Ἑσπερῐ́δοιν toîn Hesperĭ́doin	τῶν Ἑσπερῐ́δων tôn Hesperĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ Ἑσπερῐ́δῐ tēî Hesperĭ́dĭ	τοῖν Ἑσπερῐ́δοιν toîn Hesperĭ́doin	ταῖς Ἑσπερῐ́σῐ / Ἑσπερῐ́σῐν taîs Hesperĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν Ἑσπερῐ́δᾰ tḕn Hesperĭ́dă	τὼ Ἑσπερῐ́δε tṑ Hesperĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς Ἑσπερῐ́δᾰς tā̀s Hesperĭ́dăs
Vocative	Ἑσπερῐ́ς Hesperĭ́s	Ἑσπερῐ́δε Hesperĭ́de	Ἑσπερῐ́δες Hesperĭ́des
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.

“Ἑσπερίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013
“Ἑσπερίς” at Trismegistos (TM Geo 831)
History of Benghazi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia