βρύσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
βρῡ́ω (brū́ō, “to abound with, be bursting with”) + -σῐς (-sĭs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /brý.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbry.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβry.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvry.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvri.sis/
Noun
βρύσῐς • (brúsĭs) f (genitive βρύσεως); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ βρῠ́σῐς hē brŭ́sĭs |
τὼ βρῠ́σει tṑ brŭ́sei |
αἱ βρῠ́σεις hai brŭ́seis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς βρῠ́σεως tês brŭ́seōs |
τοῖν βρῠσέοιν toîn brŭséoin |
τῶν βρῠ́σεων tôn brŭ́seōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ βρῠ́σει tēî brŭ́sei |
τοῖν βρῠσέοιν toîn brŭséoin |
ταῖς βρῠ́σεσῐ / βρῠ́σεσῐν taîs brŭ́sesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν βρῠ́σῐν tḕn brŭ́sĭn |
τὼ βρῠ́σει tṑ brŭ́sei |
τᾱ̀ς βρῠ́σεις tā̀s brŭ́seis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βρῠ́σῐ brŭ́sĭ |
βρῠ́σει brŭ́sei |
βρῠ́σεις brŭ́seis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: βρύση (vrýsi)
Further reading
- “βρύσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βρύσις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011