ὄσιρις

See also: Ὄσιρις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄσῡρῐς (ósūris)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.siː.ris/ → /ˈo.si.ris/ → /ˈo.si.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.siː.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.si.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.si.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.si.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.si.ris/

Noun

ὄσῑρῐς • (ósīris) f (genitive ὀσῑ́ρῐδος); third declension

1. osyris (Osyris alba)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὄσῑρῐς; τῆς ὀσῑ́ρῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄσῑρῐς hē ósīris	τὼ ὀσῑ́ρῐδε tṑ osī́ride	αἱ ὀσῑ́ρῐδες hai osī́rides
Genitive	τῆς ὀσῑ́ρῐδος tês osī́ridos	τοῖν ὀσῑρῐ́δοιν toîn osīrídoin	τῶν ὀσῑρῐ́δων tôn osīrídōn
Dative	τῇ ὀσῑ́ρῐδῐ têi osī́ridi	τοῖν ὀσῑρῐ́δοιν toîn osīrídoin	ταῖς ὀσῑ́ρῐσῐ / ὀσῑ́ρῐσῐν taîs osī́risi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀσῑ́ρῐδᾰ tḕn osī́rida	τὼ ὀσῑ́ρῐδε tṑ osī́ride	τᾱ̀ς ὀσῑ́ρῐδᾰς tā̀s osī́ridas
Vocative	ὄσῑρῐς ósīris	ὀσῑ́ρῐδε osī́ride	ὀσῑ́ρῐδες osī́rides
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: osyris
  • → Translingual: Osyris

Further reading

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