φροντίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φρονέω (phronéō, “to think”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰron.tís/ → /ɸronˈtis/ → /fronˈdis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰron.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰronˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸronˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fronˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fronˈdis/

Noun

φροντῐ́ς • (phrontís) f (genitive φροντῐ́δος); third declension

1. thought, care, attention

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ φροντῐ́ς; τῆς φροντῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φροντῐ́ς hē phrontís	τὼ φροντῐ́δε tṑ phrontíde	αἱ φροντῐ́δες hai phrontídes
Genitive	τῆς φροντῐ́δος tês phrontídos	τοῖν φροντῐ́δοιν toîn phrontídoin	τῶν φροντῐ́δων tôn phrontídōn
Dative	τῇ φροντῐ́δῐ têi phrontídi	τοῖν φροντῐ́δοιν toîn phrontídoin	ταῖς φροντῐ́σῐ / φροντῐ́σῐν taîs phrontísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν φροντῐ́δᾰ tḕn phrontída	τὼ φροντῐ́δε tṑ phrontíde	τᾱ̀ς φροντῐ́δᾰς tā̀s phrontídas
Vocative	φροντῐ́ς phrontís	φροντῐ́δε phrontíde	φροντῐ́δες phrontídes
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: φροντίδα (frontída)

Further reading

• “φροντίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φροντίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φροντίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “φροντίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • anxiety idem, page 32.
  • brooding idem, page 101.
  • care idem, page 113.
  • cogitation idem, page 142.
  • concern idem, page 155.
  • consideration idem, page 163.
  • debate idem, page 199.
  • deliberation idem, page 207.
  • heed idem, page 394.
  • interest idem, page 450.
  • meditation idem, page 522.
  • notion idem, page 562.
  • pensiveness idem, page 603.
  • reflection idem, page 684.
  • regard idem, page 686.
  • strain idem, page 822.
  • thought idem, page 868.
  • trouble idem, page 897.
  • uneasiness idem, page 916.
  • worry idem, page 990.