ὠτίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From οὖς (oûs, “ear”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís). Compare ὦτος (ôtos, “horned owl”), from the same stem.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔː.tís/ → /oˈtis/ → /oˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔː.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈtis/

Noun

ὠτῐ́ς • (ōtís) f (genitive ὠτῐ́δος); third declension

1. bustard (Otis tarda)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ὠτῐ́ς; τῆς ὠτῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὠτῐ́ς hē ōtís	τὼ ὠτῐ́δε tṑ ōtíde	αἱ ὠτῐ́δες hai ōtídes
Genitive	τῆς ὠτῐ́δος tês ōtídos	τοῖν ὠτῐ́δοιν toîn ōtídoin	τῶν ὠτῐ́δων tôn ōtídōn
Dative	τῇ ὠτῐ́δῐ têi ōtídi	τοῖν ὠτῐ́δοιν toîn ōtídoin	ταῖς ὠτῐ́σῐ / ὠτῐ́σῐν taîs ōtísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὠτῐ́δᾰ tḕn ōtída	τὼ ὠτῐ́δε tṑ ōtíde	τᾱ̀ς ὠτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s ōtídas
Vocative	ὠτῐ́ς ōtís	ὠτῐ́δε ōtíde	ὠτῐ́δες ōtídes
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.

Descendants

• Greek: ωτίδα (otída)
• → Latin: ōtis
  • → Translingual: Otis

Further reading

• “ὠτίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὠτίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette