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Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *-s. Cognate with Latin -s.
-ς • (-s) m or f or n (genitive -ος); third declension
- suffix of masculine and feminine nouns in the third declension.
- suffix added to some masculine foreign names to make them declinable. Note that dative -ι only gets added if as iota subscript and the genitive is the bare stem
Inflections merge with the stem. See Appendix:Ancient Greek third declension.
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ -ς ho, hē -s |
τὼ -ε tṑ -e |
οἱ, αἱ -ες hoi, hai -es | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς -ος toû, tês -os |
τοῖν -οιν toîn -oin |
τῶν -ων tôn -ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ -ῐ tôi, têi -i |
τοῖν -οιν toîn -oin |
τοῖς, ταῖς -σῐ / -σῐν toîs, taîs -si(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν -ᾰ / -ν tòn, tḕn -a / -n |
τὼ -ε tṑ -e |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς -ᾰς toùs, tā̀s -as | ||||||||||
| Vocative | - / -ς - / -s |
-ε -e |
-ες -es | ||||||||||
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