ἥμισυς

See also: ήμισυς

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hɛ̌ː.mi.sys/ → /ˈi.mi.sys/ → /ˈi.mi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɛ̌ː.mi.sys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)e̝.mi.sys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.mi.sys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.mi.sys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.mi.sis/

Adjective

ἥμῐσυς • (hḗmisus) m (feminine ἡμίσεια, neuter ἥμισυ); first/third declension

1. half

Inflection

First and third declension of ἥμῐσῠς; ἡμῐ́σειᾰ; ἥμῐσῠ (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἥμῐσῠς hḗmisus	ἡμῐ́σειᾰ hēmíseia	ἥμῐσῠ hḗmisu		ἡμῐ́σεε hēmísee	ἡμῐσείᾱ hēmiseíā	ἡμῐ́σεε hēmísee		ἡμῐ́σεις hēmíseis	ἡμῐ́σειαι hēmíseiai	ἡμῐ́ση / ἡμῐ́σεᾰ hēmísē / hēmísea
Genitive		ἡμῐ́σους / ἡμῐ́σεος hēmísous / hēmíseos	ἡμῐσείᾱς hēmiseíās	ἡμῐ́σους / ἡμῐ́σεος hēmísous / hēmíseos		ἡμῐσέοιν hēmiséoin	ἡμῐσείαιν hēmiseíain	ἡμῐσέοιν hēmiséoin		ἡμῐσέων hēmiséōn	ἡμῐσειῶν hēmiseiôn	ἡμῐσέων hēmiséōn
Dative		ἡμῐ́σει hēmísei	ἡμῐσείᾳ hēmiseíāi	ἡμῐ́σει hēmísei		ἡμῐσέοιν hēmiséoin	ἡμῐσείαιν hēmiseíain	ἡμῐσέοιν hēmiséoin		ἡμῐ́σεσῐ / ἡμῐ́σεσῐν hēmísesi(n)	ἡμῐσείαις hēmiseíais	ἡμῐ́σεσῐ / ἡμῐ́σεσῐν hēmísesi(n)
Accusative		ἥμῐσῠν hḗmisun	ἡμῐ́σειᾰν hēmíseian	ἥμῐσῠ hḗmisu		ἡμῐ́σεε hēmísee	ἡμῐσείᾱ hēmiseíā	ἡμῐ́σεε hēmísee		ἡμῐ́σεις hēmíseis	ἡμῐσείᾱς hēmiseíās	ἡμῐ́ση / ἡμῐ́σεᾰ hēmísē / hēmísea
Vocative		ἥμῐσῠ hḗmisu	ἡμῐ́σειᾰ hēmíseia	ἥμῐσῠ hḗmisu		ἡμῐ́σεε hēmísee	ἡμῐσείᾱ hēmiseíā	ἡμῐ́σεε hēmísee		ἡμῐ́σεις hēmíseis	ἡμῐ́σειαι hēmíseiai	ἡμῐ́ση / ἡμῐ́σεᾰ hēmísē / hēmísea
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ἡμῐσέως hēmiséōs				ἡμῐσῠ́τερος hēmisúteros				ἡμῐσῠ́τᾰτος hēmisútatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

This is one of the three adjectives in -ύς, -εῖα, -ύ, along with θῆλυς (thêlus) and πρέσβυς (présbus), to have a recessive accent.

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: ἥμισος (hḗmisos)
  • Greek: μισός (misós)
• Greek: ημι- (imi-), ήμισυς (ímisys)

Further reading

• “ἥμισυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἥμισυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἥμισυς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἥμισυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἥμισυς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἥμισυς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2255 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • half idem, page 381.