ὑδατίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὕδατος (húdatos, “water”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.da.tís/ → /y.ðaˈtis/ → /i.ðaˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.da.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)y.daˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /y.ðaˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /y.ðaˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.ðaˈtis/

Noun

ὑδᾰτῐ́ς • (hudatís) f (genitive ὑδᾰτῐ́δος); third declension

1. (in the plural) drops, as a urinary disease
2. watery vesicle, hydatid
3. kind of disease of the liver
4. (zoology) kind of disease in the hoofs of horses
5. kind of gem

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὑδᾰτῐ́ς; τῆς ὑδᾰτῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὑδᾰτῐ́ς hē hudatís	τὼ ὑδᾰτῐ́δε tṑ hudatíde	αἱ ὑδᾰτῐ́δες hai hudatídes
Genitive	τῆς ὑδᾰτῐ́δος tês hudatídos	τοῖν ὑδᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn hudatídoin	τῶν ὑδᾰτῐ́δων tôn hudatídōn
Dative	τῇ ὑδᾰτῐ́δῐ têi hudatídi	τοῖν ὑδᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn hudatídoin	ταῖς ὑδᾰτῐ́σῐ / ὑδᾰτῐ́σῐν taîs hudatísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὑδᾰτῐ́δᾰ tḕn hudatída	τὼ ὑδᾰτῐ́δε tṑ hudatíde	τᾱ̀ς ὑδᾰτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s hudatídas
Vocative	ὑδᾰτῐ́ς hudatís	ὑδᾰτῐ́δε hudatíde	ὑδᾰτῐ́δες hudatídes
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 *-ds.

Descendants

• → English: hydatid

Further reading

• “ὑδατίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑδατίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette