μῖσος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /mí͜isos/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /míːsos/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /mísos/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /mísos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /mísos/

Noun

μῖσος (genitive μίσους) n, (misos)

1. hatred

Inflection

Third declension of μῖσος, μίσεος (uncontracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	μῖσος	μίσεε	μίσεᾰ
Genitive	μίσεος	μισέοιν	μισέων
Dative	μίσεϊ	μισέοιν	μίσεσσῐ(ν)
Accusative	μῖσος	μίσεε	μίσεᾰ
Vocative	μῖσος	μίσεε	μίσεᾰ

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

Third declension of μῖσος, μίσους (contracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	μῖσος	μίσει	μίση
Genitive	μίσους	μισοῖν	μισῶν
Dative	μίσει	μισοῖν	μίσεσῐ(ν)
Accusative	μῖσος	μίσει	μίση
Vocative	μῖσος	μίσει	μίση

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