ξυρίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ξειρίς (xeirís), ξίρις (xíris), ξιρίς (xirís), σίρις (síris), σῖρις (sîris)

Etymology

The alternative forms σίρις (síris) and σῖρις (sîris) suggest that the older form was ξίρις (xíris). The variants point to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ksy.rís/ → /ksyˈris/ → /ksiˈris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ksy.rís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ksyˈris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ksyˈris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ksyˈris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ksiˈris/

Noun

ξῠρίς • (xurís) f (genitive ξῠρίδος); third declension

1. gladen (Iris foetidissima)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ξῠρῐ́ς; τῆς ξῠρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ξῠρῐ́ς hē xurís	τὼ ξῠρῐ́δε tṑ xuríde	αἱ ξῠρῐ́δες hai xurídes
Genitive	τῆς ξῠρῐ́δος tês xurídos	τοῖν ξῠρῐ́δοιν toîn xurídoin	τῶν ξῠρῐ́δων tôn xurídōn
Dative	τῇ ξῠρῐ́δῐ têi xurídi	τοῖν ξῠρῐ́δοιν toîn xurídoin	ταῖς ξῠρῐ́σῐ / ξῠρῐ́σῐν taîs xurísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ξῠρῐ́δᾰ tḕn xurída	τὼ ξῠρῐ́δε tṑ xuríde	τᾱ̀ς ξῠρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s xurídas
Vocative	ξῠρῐ́ς xurís	ξῠρῐ́δε xuríde	ξῠρῐ́δες xurídes
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

• → Latin: xyris
• → Translingual: Xyris

Further reading

• “ξυρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ξυρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN