ὄρνις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄρνῑξ (órnīx) — Ionic, Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *órn-īk-s ~ *órn-īkʷʰ-, according to Beekes, from a feminine derivative ending in *-ih₂ of the oblique stem h₃er-n- of Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō. The alternative ὄρνῑξ (órnīx) is a back-formation from the dative plural ὄρνῑξῐ (órnīxĭ) of the alternate stem ὄρνῑχ- (órnīkh-). See also ὄρνεον (órneon) from the same root.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ór.niːs/ → /ˈor.nis/ → /ˈor.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ór.niːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈor.nis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.nis/

Noun

ὄρνῑς • (órnīs) m or f (genitive ὄρνῑθος); third declension

1. bird
2. chicken

Declension

Third declension of ὁ / ἡ ὄρνῑς; τοῦ / τῆς ὄρνῑθος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ / ἡ ὄρνῑς ho / hē órnīs	τὼ ὄρνῑθε tṑ órnīthe	οἱ / αἱ ὄρνῑθες hoi / hai órnīthes
Genitive	τοῦ / τῆς ὄρνῑθος toû / tês órnīthos	τοῖν ὀρνῑ́θοιν toîn ornī́thoin	τῶν ὀρνῑ́θων tôn ornī́thōn
Dative	τῷ / τῇ ὄρνῑθῐ tōî / tēî órnīthĭ	τοῖν ὀρνῑ́θοιν toîn ornī́thoin	τοῖς / ταῖς ὄρνῑσῐ / ὄρνῑσῐν toîs / taîs órnīsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν / τὴν ὄρνῑν / ὄρνῑθᾰ tòn / tḕn órnīn / órnīthă	τὼ ὄρνῑθε tṑ órnīthe	τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς ὄρνῑθᾰς toùs / tā̀s órnīthăs
Vocative	ὄρνῑ órnī	ὄρνῑθε órnīthe	ὄρνῑθες órnīthes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-θς (*-ths).

Derived terms

• ὀρνῑ́θειος (ornī́theios)
• ὀρνῑθεύω (ornītheúō)
• ὀρνῑ́θῐον (ornī́thĭon)

Related terms

• ᾰ̓́ορνος (ắornos)
• Ᾰ̓́ορνος (Ắornos)
• ὄρνεον (órneon)

Descendants

• Greek: όρνιθα (órnitha)

References

• “ὄρνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄρνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄρνις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄρνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὄρνις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὄρνις”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3733 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 79
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN