ἱστός
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editRelated to ἵστημι (hístēmi), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /his.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)isˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /isˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /isˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /isˈtos/
Noun
editῐ̔στός • (histós) m (genitive ῐ̔στοῦ); second declension
- mast
- shinbone
- Oppian, Cynegetica 1.408
- an (unknown) constellation
- (weaving) beam (of a loom; see usage notes)
- (weaving) loom
- (weaving) web
Usage notes
editUnlike modern looms, the beam of an Ancient Greek loom stood upright.
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῐ̔στός ho histós |
τὼ ῐ̔στώ tṑ histṓ |
οἱ ῐ̔στοί hoi histoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῐ̔στοῦ toû histoû |
τοῖν ῐ̔στοῖν toîn histoîn |
τῶν ῐ̔στῶν tôn histôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῐ̔στῷ tôi histôi |
τοῖν ῐ̔στοῖν toîn histoîn |
τοῖς ῐ̔στοῖς toîs histoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῐ̔στόν tòn histón |
τὼ ῐ̔στώ tṑ histṓ |
τοὺς ῐ̔στούς toùs histoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῐ̔στέ histé |
ῐ̔στώ histṓ |
ῐ̔στοί histoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἱστός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 602
Further reading
edit- “ἱστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἱστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἱστός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἱστός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἱστός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἱστός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- grc:Ship parts
- grc:Constellations
- Ancient Greek terms with quotations
- grc:Weaving