ἁλμυρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἁλμυρός (halmurós, “salty”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hal.myː.rís/ → /al.myˈris/ → /al.miˈris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hal.myː.rís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)al.myˈris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /al.myˈris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /al.myˈris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /al.miˈris/

Noun

ἁλμῡρῐ́ς • (halmūrís) f (genitive ἁλμῡρῐ́δος); third declension

1. salt humour, salt scum
2. salt soil or land
3. saltiness of water
4. kind of cabbage (Brassica cretica)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἁλμῡρῐ́ς; τῆς ἁλμῡρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἁλμῡρῐ́ς hē halmūrís	τὼ ἁλμῡρῐ́δε tṑ halmūríde	αἱ ἁλμῡρῐ́δες hai halmūrídes
Genitive	τῆς ἁλμῡρῐ́δος tês halmūrídos	τοῖν ἁλμῡρῐ́δοιν toîn halmūrídoin	τῶν ἁλμῡρῐ́δων tôn halmūrídōn
Dative	τῇ ἁλμῡρῐ́δῐ têi halmūrídi	τοῖν ἁλμῡρῐ́δοιν toîn halmūrídoin	ταῖς ἁλμῡρῐ́σῐ / ἁλμῡρῐ́σῐν taîs halmūrísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἁλμῡρῐ́δᾰ tḕn halmūrída	τὼ ἁλμῡρῐ́δε tṑ halmūríde	τᾱ̀ς ἁλμῡρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s halmūrídas
Vocative	ἁλμῡρῐ́ς halmūrís	ἁλμῡρῐ́δε halmūríde	ἁλμῡρῐ́δες halmūrídes
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

• “ἁλμυρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἁλμυρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἁλμυρίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)