-ιστος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *-istHos, from *-yōs (elative suffix) + *-tHós (adjectival suffix).[1][2] Cognate with Proto-Indo-Iranian *-ištʰas, Proto-Germanic *-istaz.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /is.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /is.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /is.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /is.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /is.tos/
Suffix
-ῐστος • (-ĭstos) m (feminine -ῐ́στη, neuter -ῐστον); first/second declension[3]
- Added to some adjectives to form a superlative adjective
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | -ῐστος -ĭstos |
-ῐστη -ĭstē |
-ῐστον -ĭston |
-ῐστω -ĭstō |
-ῐστᾱ -ĭstā |
-ῐστω -ĭstō |
-ῐστοι -ĭstoi |
-ῐσται -ĭstai |
-ῐστᾰ -ĭstă | |||||
| Genitive | -ῐστου -ĭstou |
-ῐστης -ĭstēs |
-ῐστου -ĭstou |
-ῐστοιν -ĭstoin |
-ῐσταιν -ĭstain |
-ῐστοιν -ĭstoin |
-ῐστων -ĭstōn |
-ῐστων -ĭstōn |
-ῐστων -ĭstōn | |||||
| Dative | -ῐστῳ -ĭstōi |
-ῐστῃ -ĭstēi |
-ῐστῳ -ĭstōi |
-ῐστοιν -ĭstoin |
-ῐσταιν -ĭstain |
-ῐστοιν -ĭstoin |
-ῐστοις -ĭstois |
-ῐσταις -ĭstais |
-ῐστοις -ĭstois | |||||
| Accusative | -ῐστον -ĭston |
-ῐστην -ĭstēn |
-ῐστον -ĭston |
-ῐστω -ĭstō |
-ῐστᾱ -ĭstā |
-ῐστω -ĭstō |
-ῐστους -ĭstous |
-ῐστᾱς -ĭstās |
-ῐστᾰ -ĭstă | |||||
| Vocative | -ῐστε -ĭste |
-ῐστη -ĭstē |
-ῐστον -ĭston |
-ῐστω -ĭstō |
-ῐστᾱ -ĭstā |
-ῐστω -ĭstō |
-ῐστοι -ĭstoi |
-ῐσται -ĭstai |
-ῐστᾰ -ĭstă | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| -ιστα -ista |
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Synonyms
- -τατος (-tatos)
Derived terms
- -ῐστᾰ (-ĭstă)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2011) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd edition, revised and corrected by Michiel de Vaan, Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 221
- ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 284
- ^ Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 318