μνῆστις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μνᾶστις (mnâstis) — Doric, Aeolic

Etymology

From μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō, “to remember”) +‎ -τις (-tis, verbal noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mnɛ̂ːs.tis/ → /ˈmnis.tis/ → /ˈmnis.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mnɛ̂ːs.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmne̝s.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmnis.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmnis.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmnis.tis/

Noun

μνῆστῐς • (mnêstis) f (genitive μνήστεως); third declension

1. remembrance, recollection

Declension

Third declension of ἡ μνῆστῐς; τῆς μνήστεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μνῆστῐς hē mnêstis	τὼ μνήστει tṑ mnḗstei	αἱ μνήστεις hai mnḗsteis
Genitive	τῆς μνήστεως tês mnḗsteōs	τοῖν μνηστέοιν toîn mnēstéoin	τῶν μνήστεων tôn mnḗsteōn
Dative	τῇ μνήστει têi mnḗstei	τοῖν μνηστέοιν toîn mnēstéoin	ταῖς μνήστεσῐ / μνήστεσῐν taîs mnḗstesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν μνῆστῐν tḕn mnêstin	τὼ μνήστει tṑ mnḗstei	τᾱ̀ς μνήστεις tā̀s mnḗsteis
Vocative	μνῆστῐ mnêsti	μνήστει mnḗstei	μνήστεις mnḗsteis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀμνηστία (amnēstía)

Further reading

• “μνῆστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μνῆστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μνῆστις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • gratitude idem, page 371.
  • memory idem, page 524.
  • recollection idem, page 680.
  • remembrance idem, page 693.