βρέφος

[edit] Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷrebʰ-. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic жрѣбѧ (žrěbę) and Irish bromach.

βρέφος (genitive βρέφεος or βρέφους); n, third declension; (brephos)

Third declension of βρέφος, βρέφεος (uncontracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	βρέφος	βρέφεε	βρέφεᾰ
Genitive	βρέφεος	βρεφέοιν	βρεφέων
Dative	βρέφεϊ	βρεφέοιν	βρέφεσσῐ(ν)
Accusative	βρέφος	βρέφεε	βρέφεᾰ
Vocative	βρέφος	βρέφεε	βρέφεᾰ

This inflection pattern originally had a sigma (i.e. βρέφεσος), which was dropped early on in the history of Ancient Greek.

Third declension of βρέφος, βρέφους (contracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	βρέφος	βρέφει	βρέφη
Genitive	βρέφους	βρεφοῖν	βρεφῶν
Dative	βρέφει	βρεφοῖν	βρέφεσῐ(ν)
Accusative	βρέφος	βρέφει	βρέφη
Vocative	βρέφος	βρέφει	βρέφη

The irregular accentuation of this paradigm is explained by the fact that it is the contracted version of the above paradigm.