Εὐμενίς

Ancient Greek

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.me.nís/ → /eβ.meˈnis/ → /ev.meˈnis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.me.nís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew.meˈnis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eβ.meˈnis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ev.meˈnis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ev.meˈnis/

Proper noun

Εὐμενίς • (Eumenís) f (genitive Εὐμενίδος); third declension

1. one of the Eumenides; a Eumenis

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Εὐμενῐ́ς; τῆς Εὐμενῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Εὐμενῐ́ς hē Eumenís	τὼ Εὐμενῐ́δε tṑ Eumeníde	αἱ Εὐμενῐ́δες hai Eumenídes
Genitive	τῆς Εὐμενῐ́δος tês Eumenídos	τοῖν Εὐμενῐ́δοιν toîn Eumenídoin	τῶν Εὐμενῐ́δων tôn Eumenídōn
Dative	τῇ Εὐμενῐ́δῐ têi Eumenídi	τοῖν Εὐμενῐ́δοιν toîn Eumenídoin	ταῖς Εὐμενῐ́σῐ / Εὐμενῐ́σῐν taîs Eumenísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν Εὐμενῐ́δᾰ tḕn Eumenída	τὼ Εὐμενῐ́δε tṑ Eumeníde	τᾱ̀ς Εὐμενῐ́δᾰς tā̀s Eumenídas
Vocative	Εὐμενῐ́ς Eumenís	Εὐμενῐ́δε Eumeníde	Εὐμενῐ́δες Eumenídes
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:
  • Ευμενίς (Evmenís)
  • Ευμενίδα (Evmenída)
  • plural: Ευμενίδες (Evmenídes)
• → Latin: Eumenis (Eumenides)
  • → Italian: Eumenide
  • → Sicilian: Eumèniti

Further reading

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011