ὑόσερις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὗς (hûs, “swine”) +‎ σέρις (séris, “endive or chicory”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.ó.se.ris/ → /yˈo.se.ris/ → /iˈo.se.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.ó.se.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yˈo.se.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈo.se.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈo.se.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈo.se.ris/

Noun

ὑόσερῐς • (huóserĭs) f (genitive ὑοσέρῐδος); third declension

1. hawksbeard (Crepis neglecta)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ὑόσερῐς; τῆς ὑοσέρῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὑόσερῐς hē huóserĭs	τὼ ὑοσέρῐδε tṑ huosérĭde	αἱ ὑοσέρῐδες hai huosérĭdes
Genitive	τῆς ὑοσέρῐδος tês huosérĭdos	τοῖν ὑοσερῐ́δοιν toîn huoserĭ́doin	τῶν ὑοσερῐ́δων tôn huoserĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ὑοσέρῐδῐ têi huosérĭdĭ	τοῖν ὑοσερῐ́δοιν toîn huoserĭ́doin	ταῖς ὑοσέρῐσῐ / ὑοσέρῐσῐν taîs huosérĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὑοσέρῐδᾰ tḕn huosérĭdă	τὼ ὑοσέρῐδε tṑ huosérĭde	τᾱ̀ς ὑοσέρῐδᾰς tā̀s huosérĭdăs
Vocative	ὑόσερῐς huóserĭs	ὑοσέρῐδε huosérĭde	ὑοσέρῐδες huosérĭdes
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: hyoseris
  • → Translingual: Hyoseris

Further reading

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