ζευγίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζεῦγος (zeûgos, “pair of beasts”) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdeu̯.ɡǐː.tɛːs/ → /zeβˈʝi.tis/ → /zevˈʝi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdeu̯.ɡǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zewˈɡi.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zeβˈʝi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zevˈʝi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /zevˈʝi.tis/

Noun

ζευγῑ́της • (zeugī́tēs) m (genitive ζευγῑ́του); first declension

1. animals yoked in pairs.
2. soldiers in the same rank.
3. a reed which formed the mouthpiece of a double flute.

Declension

First declension of ὁ ζευγῑ́της; τοῦ ζευγῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ζευγῑ́της ho zeugī́tēs	τὼ ζευγῑ́τᾱ tṑ zeugī́tā	οἱ ζευγῖται hoi zeugîtai
Genitive	τοῦ ζευγῑ́του toû zeugī́tou	τοῖν ζευγῑ́ταιν toîn zeugī́tain	τῶν ζευγῑτῶν tôn zeugītôn
Dative	τῷ ζευγῑ́τῃ tôi zeugī́tēi	τοῖν ζευγῑ́ταιν toîn zeugī́tain	τοῖς ζευγῑ́ταις toîs zeugī́tais
Accusative	τὸν ζευγῑ́την tòn zeugī́tēn	τὼ ζευγῑ́τᾱ tṑ zeugī́tā	τοὺς ζευγῑ́τᾱς toùs zeugī́tās
Vocative	ζευγῖτᾰ zeugîta	ζευγῑ́τᾱ zeugī́tā	ζευγῖται zeugîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ζευγῖται (zeugîtai)

Further reading

• “ζευγίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ζευγίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ζευγίτης in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften