πρίστις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πρίζω (prízō, “to saw”) +‎ -τις (-tis, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prís.tis/ → /ˈpris.tis/ → /ˈpris.tis/

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

Noun

πρῐ́στῐς • (prístis) f (genitive πρῐ́στεως); third declension

1. Common sawfish (Pristis pristis, syn. Pristis antiquorum).
2. Ship of war, from its shape of a sawfish.
3. A kind of cup, from its shape of a sawfish.
4. Ornamental part of a surgical machine.
5. A stonemason's implement.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πρῐ́στῐς; τῆς πρῐ́στεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρῐ́στῐς hē prístis	τὼ πρῐ́στει tṑ prístei	αἱ πρῐ́στεις hai prísteis
Genitive	τῆς πρῐ́στεως tês prísteōs	τοῖν πρῐστέοιν toîn pristéoin	τῶν πρῐ́στεων tôn prísteōn
Dative	τῇ πρῐ́στει têi prístei	τοῖν πρῐστέοιν toîn pristéoin	ταῖς πρῐ́στεσῐ / πρῐ́στεσῐν taîs prístesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πρῐ́στῐν tḕn prístin	τὼ πρῐ́στει tṑ prístei	τᾱ̀ς πρῐ́στεις tā̀s prísteis
Vocative	πρῐ́στῐ prísti	πρῐ́στει prístei	πρῐ́στεις prísteis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: pristis
• → Translingual: Pristis

References

• “πρίστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press