τίγρις

See also: Τίγρις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Named after the Tigris river, from an Indo-Iranian language. Related to Avestan 𐬝𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌‏ (t̰igri, “arrow”), Old Persian 𐎫𐎥𐎼 (“pointed, sharp”)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /tíɡris/

• (1st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tíɣris/

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /tíɣris/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tíɣris/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tíɣɾis/

Noun

τίγρις • (tígris) f (genitive τίγρεως); third declension

1. tiger

Inflection

Third declension of τίγρῐς, τίγρεως

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τίγρῐς	τὼ τίγρει	αἱ τίγρεις
Genitive	τῆς τίγρεως	τοῖν τιγρέοιν	τῶν τίγρεων
Dative	τῇ τίγρει	τοῖν τιγρέοιν	ταῖς τίγρεσῐ(ν)
Accusative	τὴν τίγρῐν	τὼ τίγρει	τὰς τίγρεις
Vocative	τίγρῐ	τίγρει	τίγρεις
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Third declension of τίγρῐς, τίγριος

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τίγρῐς	τὼ τίγριε	αἱ τίγριες
Genitive	τῆς τίγριος	τοῖν τιγρίοιν	τῶν τιγρίων
Dative	τῇ τίγρῑ, τίγρει	τοῖν τιγρίοιν	ταῖς τίγρῐσῐ(ν), τιγρίεσῐ(ν), τίγρεσῐ(ν)
Accusative	τὴν τίγρῐν	τὼ τίγριε	τὰς τίγρῑς, τίγριᾰς
Vocative	τίγρῐ	τίγριε	τίγριες
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Descendants

• English: tiger
• French: tigre
• Greek: τίγρη (tígri)
• Latin: tigris
• Russian: тигр (tigr)

References

• τίγρις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τίγρις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «τίγρις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 874

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Greek

Noun

τίγρις • (tígris) f

1. Katharevousa form of τίγρη (tígri, “tiger”)