ἀρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is common to other technical terms like δοκίς (dokís, “beam”) and σανίς (sanís, “board, plank”) but the origin is still unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.rís/ → /aˈris/ → /aˈris/

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

Noun

ἀρίς • (arís) f (genitive ἀρίδος); third declension

1. bow drill

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἀρῐ́ς; τῆς ἀρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀρῐ́ς hē arĭ́s	τὼ ἀρῐ́δε tṑ arĭ́de	αἱ ἀρῐ́δες hai arĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ἀρῐ́δος tês arĭ́dos	τοῖν ἀρῐ́δοιν toîn arĭ́doin	τῶν ἀρῐ́δων tôn arĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ἀρῐ́δῐ têi arĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ἀρῐ́δοιν toîn arĭ́doin	ταῖς ἀρῐ́σῐ / ἀρῐ́σῐν taîs arĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀρῐ́δᾰ tḕn arĭ́dă	τὼ ἀρῐ́δε tṑ arĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ἀρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s arĭ́dăs
Vocative	ἀρῐ́ς arĭ́s	ἀρῐ́δε arĭ́de	ἀρῐ́δες arĭ́des
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

• “ἀρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀρίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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