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 (t-g-r, “pointed, sharp”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tí.ɡris/ → /ˈti.ɣris/ → /ˈti.ɣris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tí.ɡris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɡris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɣris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɣris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɣris/

Noun

τῐ́γρῐς • (tígris) f (genitive τῐ́γρεως); third declension

1. tiger

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ τῐ́γρῐς; τῆς τῐ́γρεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τῐ́γρῐς hē tígris	τὼ τῐ́γρει tṑ tígrei	αἱ τῐ́γρεις hai tígreis
Genitive	τῆς τῐ́γρεως tês tígreōs	τοῖν τῐγρέοιν toîn tigréoin	τῶν τῐ́γρεων tôn tígreōn
Dative	τῇ τῐ́γρει têi tígrei	τοῖν τῐγρέοιν toîn tigréoin	ταῖς τῐ́γρεσῐ / τῐ́γρεσῐν taîs tígresi(n)
Accusative	τὴν τῐ́γρῐν tḕn tígrin	τὼ τῐ́γρει tṑ tígrei	τᾱ̀ς τῐ́γρεις tā̀s tígreis
Vocative	τῐ́γρῐ tígri	τῐ́γρει tígrei	τῐ́γρεις tígreis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “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”)