tigris

See also: Tigris and Tígris

Hungarian

tigris

Etymology

From Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris, “tiger”), probably of Iranian origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtiɡriʃ]
• Hyphenation: tig‧ris
• Rhymes: -iʃ

Noun

tigris (plural tigrisek)

1. tiger (Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tigris	tigrisek
accusative	tigrist	tigriseket
dative	tigrisnek	tigriseknek
instrumental	tigrissel	tigrisekkel
causal-final	tigrisért	tigrisekért
translative	tigrissé	tigrisekké
terminative	tigrisig	tigrisekig
essive-formal	tigrisként	tigrisekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tigrisben	tigrisekben
superessive	tigrisen	tigriseken
adessive	tigrisnél	tigriseknél
illative	tigrisbe	tigrisekbe
sublative	tigrisre	tigrisekre
allative	tigrishez	tigrisekhez
elative	tigrisből	tigrisekből
delative	tigrisről	tigrisekről
ablative	tigristől	tigrisektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	tigrisé	tigriseké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tigriséi	tigrisekéi

Possessive forms of tigris
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tigrisem	tigriseim
2nd person sing.	tigrised	tigriseid
3rd person sing.	tigrise	tigrisei
1st person plural	tigrisünk	tigriseink
2nd person plural	tigrisetek	tigriseitek
3rd person plural	tigrisük	tigriseik

Derived terms

• tigrises

 

Compound words

• királytigris
• tigrisbőr
• tigriscápa
• tigriskölyök
• tigrisliliom
• tigrisugrás
• tigrisvadász

 

Expressions

• bengáli tigris
• szibériai tigris

 

Further reading

• tigris in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

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Latin

tīgris (a tiger)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris, “tiger”), probably of Iranian origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɡris/, [ˈt̪ɪɡrɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɡris/, [ˈt̪iːɡris]

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Noun

tigris m (genitive tigris or tigridis); third declension

1. tiger
2. (poetic) tigress
3. a tiger skin

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, -in or -em, ablative singular in -ī or imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tigris	tigrēs tigridēs
Genitive	tigris tigridis	tigrium tigridum
Dative	tigrī tigridī	tigribus tigridibus
Accusative	tigrim tigrin tigrem tigridem	tigrēs tigrīs tigridēs
Ablative	tigrī tigride	tigribus tigridibus
Vocative	tigris	tigrēs tigridēs

Related terms

Related terms →

• tigriceps
• tigrifer

• tigriger
• tigrīnus

Descendants

• Catalan: tigre
• → English: tiger
• → Esperanto: tigro
• French: tigre
• → Hungarian: tigris

• → Interlingua: tigre
• Italian: tigre
• Portuguese: tigre
• Romanian: tigru
• Sicilian: trighi
• Spanish: tigre

See also

• Tigris

References

• tigris in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tigris in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tigris in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tigris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• tigris in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• tigris in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tigris in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly