ἀρτύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *artús, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)r-tús (“form, order; bond”), from the root *h₂er- (“to fit together, join”).

Cognates include Latin artus (“joint, sinew, limb; power”), Old Armenian արդ (ard, “shape, order”), Sanskrit ऋतु (ṛtú, “union; order, rule; time period”), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎 (ratu, “time period”) and Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (lt' /⁠rad⁠/, “master; judge”).

Apparently semantically merged in prehistory with ἀρθμός (arthmós), despite the different suffix.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.tys/ → /ar.tys/ → /ar.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.tys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ar.tys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ar.tys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ar.tys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ar.tis/

Noun

ἀρτύς • (artús) f (genitive ἀρτύος); third declension

1. Alternative form of ἀρθμός (arthmós, “bond”)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἀρτῠ́ς; τῆς ἀρτῠός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀρτῠ́ς hē artús	τὼ ἀρτῠ́ε tṑ artúe	αἱ ἀρτῠ́ες hai artúes
Genitive	τῆς ἀρτῠός tês artuós	τοῖν ἀρτῠοῖν toîn artuoîn	τῶν ἀρτῠῶν tôn artuôn
Dative	τῇ ἀρτῠῐ̈́ têi artuḯ	τοῖν ἀρτῠοῖν toîn artuoîn	ταῖς ἀρτῠσῐ́ / ἀρτῠσῐ́ν taîs artusí(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀρτῠ́ν tḕn artún	τὼ ἀρτῠ́ε tṑ artúe	τᾱ̀ς ἀρτῦς / ἀρτῠ́ᾰς tā̀s artûs / artúas
Vocative	ἀρτῠ́ artú	ἀρτῠ́ε artúe	ἀρτῠ́ες artúes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀρτύω (artúō)

Further reading

• “ἀρτύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρτύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀρτύς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)