μάρις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possible loan from Old Persian *Mari- (literally “jar, pitcher”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /má.ris/ → /ˈma.ris/ → /ˈma.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /má.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ris/

Noun

μάρῐς • (máris) m (genitive μάρεως); third declension

1. measure for liquids, containing six cotyles

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ μᾰ́ρῐς; τοῦ μᾰ́ρεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μᾰ́ρῐς ho máris	τὼ μᾰ́ρει tṑ márei	οἱ μᾰ́ρεις hoi máreis
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰ́ρεως toû máreōs	τοῖν μᾰρέοιν toîn maréoin	τῶν μᾰ́ρεων tôn máreōn
Dative	τῷ μᾰ́ρει tôi márei	τοῖν μᾰρέοιν toîn maréoin	τοῖς μᾰ́ρεσῐ / μᾰ́ρεσῐν toîs máresi(n)
Accusative	τὸν μᾰ́ρῐν tòn márin	τὼ μᾰ́ρει tṑ márei	τοὺς μᾰ́ρεις toùs máreis
Vocative	μᾰ́ρῐ mári	μᾰ́ρει márei	μᾰ́ρεις máreis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• →? Arabic: مَرِينَة (marīna)
• → Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲩⲣⲉⲥ (maures), ⲙⲁⲩⲣⲏⲥ (maurēs), ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲥ (maris)

Further reading

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