Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *-s. Cognate with Latin -s.

Suffix

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(-sm or f or n (genitive -ος); third declension

  1. suffix of masculine and feminine nouns in the third declension.
  2. 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

Usage notes

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Inflections merge with the stem. See Appendix:Ancient Greek third declension.

Declension

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See also

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