ζυγίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζῠγόν (zugón, “yoke”) +‎ -ίς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡís/ → /zyˈʝis/ → /ziˈʝis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zyˈɡis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zyˈʝis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zyˈʝis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ziˈʝis/

Noun

ζῠγῐ́ς • (zugís) f (genitive ζῠγῐ́δος); third declension

1. wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum)

   Synonyms: ἀγρῐόπρᾰσον (agrióprason), ἕρπῠλλος (hérpullos)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ζῠγῐ́ς; τῆς ζῠγῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ζῠγῐ́ς hē zugís	τὼ ζῠγῐ́δε tṑ zugíde	αἱ ζῠγῐ́δες hai zugídes
Genitive	τῆς ζῠγῐ́δος tês zugídos	τοῖν ζῠγῐ́δοιν toîn zugídoin	τῶν ζῠγῐ́δων tôn zugídōn
Dative	τῇ ζῠγῐ́δῐ têi zugídi	τοῖν ζῠγῐ́δοιν toîn zugídoin	ταῖς ζῠγῐ́σῐ / ζῠγῐ́σῐν taîs zugísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ζῠγῐ́δᾰ tḕn zugída	τὼ ζῠγῐ́δε tṑ zugíde	τᾱ̀ς ζῠγῐ́δᾰς tā̀s zugídas
Vocative	ζῠγῐ́ς zugís	ζῠγῐ́δε zugíde	ζῠγῐ́δες zugídes
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.

Further reading

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