ἡρωΐς

Ancient Greek

ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”) +‎ -ις (-is)

ἡρωῐ̈́ς • (hērōĭ̈́s) f (genitive ἡρωῐ̈́δος); third declension

a heroine
- P., P. 11.7
- 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Fr. 126
a deceased woman
- Inscriptiones Graecae 12.51
- Rev.Phil. 36.55
- AJP 48.33
(adjectival) alternative form of ἡρωϊκή (hērōïkḗ, “heroic”)
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1048
- Palatine Anthology 9.504
a novennial festival at Delphi
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.293c

Third declension of ἡ ἡρωῐ̈́ς; τῆς ἡρωῐ̈́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἡρωῐ̈́ς hē hērōĭ̈́s	τὼ ἡρωῐ̈́δε tṑ hērōĭ̈́de	αἱ ἡρωῐ̈́δες hai hērōĭ̈́des
Genitive	τῆς ἡρωῐ̈́δος tês hērōĭ̈́dos	τοῖν ἡρωῐ̈́δοιν toîn hērōĭ̈́doin	τῶν ἡρωῐ̈́δων tôn hērōĭ̈́dōn
Dative	τῇ ἡρωῐ̈́δῐ tēî hērōĭ̈́dĭ	τοῖν ἡρωῐ̈́δοιν toîn hērōĭ̈́doin	ταῖς ἡρωῐ̈́σῐ / ἡρωῐ̈́σῐν taîs hērōĭ̈́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἡρωῐ̈́δᾰ tḕn hērōĭ̈́dă	τὼ ἡρωῐ̈́δε tṑ hērōĭ̈́de	τᾱ̀ς ἡρωῐ̈́δᾰς tā̀s hērōĭ̈́dăs
Vocative	ἡρωῐ̈́ς hērōĭ̈́s	ἡρωῐ̈́δε hērōĭ̈́de	ἡρωῐ̈́δες hērōĭ̈́des
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.

“ἡρω-ίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἡρωΐς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette