ἄρδις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂erdi- (“edge, point”); see also Sanskrit अलि (ali, “scorpion, bee”), Old Norse erta, Proto-Germanic *artijaną (“stimulate, stir up, tease”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ár.dis/ → /ˈar.ðis/ → /ˈar.ðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ár.dis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈar.dis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ðis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ðis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ðis/

Noun

ἄρδῐς • (árdis) f (genitive ἄρδῐος); third declension

1. point of an arrow

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓́ρδῐς; τῆς ᾰ̓́ρδῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓́ρδῐς hē árdis	τὼ ᾰ̓́ρδῐε tṑ árdie	αἱ ᾰ̓́ρδῐες hai árdies
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓́ρδῐος tês árdios	τοῖν ᾰ̓ρδῐ́οιν toîn ardíoin	τῶν ᾰ̓ρδῐ́ων tôn ardíōn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓́ρδῑ têi árdī	τοῖν ᾰ̓ρδῐ́οιν toîn ardíoin	ταῖς ᾰ̓́ρδῐσῐ / ᾰ̓́ρδῐσῐν taîs árdisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓́ρδῐν tḕn árdin	τὼ ᾰ̓́ρδῐε tṑ árdie	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓́ρδῑς / ᾰ̓́ρδῐᾰς tā̀s árdīs / árdias
Vocative	ᾰ̓́ρδῐ árdi	ᾰ̓́ρδῐε árdie	ᾰ̓́ρδῐες árdies
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἄρδις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄρδις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄρδις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄρδις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)