ζυγίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζῠγόν (zŭgón, “yoke”) +‎ -ίς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡís/ → /zyˈʝis/ → /ziˈʝis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zyˈɡis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zyˈʝis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zyˈʝis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ziˈʝis/

Noun

ζῠγῐ́ς • (zŭgĭ́s) f (genitive ζῠγῐ́δος); third declension

1. wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum)

   Synonyms: ἀγρῐόπρᾰσον (agrĭóprăson), ἕρπῠλλος (hérpŭllos)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ζῠγῐ́ς; τῆς ζῠγῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ζῠγῐ́ς hē zŭgĭ́s	τὼ ζῠγῐ́δε tṑ zŭgĭ́de	αἱ ζῠγῐ́δες hai zŭgĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ζῠγῐ́δος tês zŭgĭ́dos	τοῖν ζῠγῐ́δοιν toîn zŭgĭ́doin	τῶν ζῠγῐ́δων tôn zŭgĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ζῠγῐ́δῐ têi zŭgĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ζῠγῐ́δοιν toîn zŭgĭ́doin	ταῖς ζῠγῐ́σῐ / ζῠγῐ́σῐν taîs zŭgĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ζῠγῐ́δᾰ tḕn zŭgĭ́dă	τὼ ζῠγῐ́δε tṑ zŭgĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ζῠγῐ́δᾰς tā̀s zŭgĭ́dăs
Vocative	ζῠγῐ́ς zŭgĭ́s	ζῠγῐ́δε zŭgĭ́de	ζῠγῐ́δες zŭgĭ́des
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.

Further reading

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