δίς

See also: δις and Appendix:Variations of "dis"

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: δῠ́ο (dúo)     Ordinal: δεύτερος (deúteros)     Adverbial: δίς (dís)     Collective: δῠᾰ́ς (duás)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *dwís, from the Proto-Indo-European *dwís; related to δύο (dúo, “two”). Cognates include the Sanskrit द्विस् (dvís) and the Latin bis and dis-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dís/ → /ðis/ → /ðis/

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

Adverb

δῐ́ς • (dís) (cardinal δύο, ordinal δεύτερος)

1. twice, doubly, again

Derived terms

• δισσός (dissós)
• δίχα (díkha)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: di-
• → Dutch: di-
• → English: di-
• Greek: δις (dis)
• → Italian: di-
• → Spanish: di-

Further reading

• “δίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δίς 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
• δίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “δίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1364 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.
  • twice idem, page 903.