-ινος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- -ῖνος (-înos)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. Cognate with Latin -īnus and Proto-Germanic *-īnaz.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /i.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /i.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.nos/
Suffix
-ῐνος • (-ĭnos) m (feminine -ῐ́νη, neuter -ῐνον); first/second declension
- Added to nouns or adverbs to form adjectives relating to material, time, and so on: made of, during the time of
- (with long ῑ) Forms adjectives of place: -ine
- Βυζαντῖνος (Buzantînos, “Byzantine”)
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | -ῐνος -ĭnos |
-ῐνη -ĭnē |
-ῐνον -ĭnon |
-ῐνω -ĭnō |
-ῐνᾱ -ĭnā |
-ῐνω -ĭnō |
-ῐνοι -ĭnoi |
-ῐναι -ĭnai |
-ῐνᾰ -ĭnă | |||||
| Genitive | -ῐνου -ĭnou |
-ῐνης -ĭnēs |
-ῐνου -ĭnou |
-ῐνοιν -ĭnoin |
-ῐναιν -ĭnain |
-ῐνοιν -ĭnoin |
-ῐνων -ĭnōn |
-ῐνων -ĭnōn |
-ῐνων -ĭnōn | |||||
| Dative | -ῐνῳ -ĭnōi |
-ῐνῃ -ĭnēi |
-ῐνῳ -ĭnōi |
-ῐνοιν -ĭnoin |
-ῐναιν -ĭnain |
-ῐνοιν -ĭnoin |
-ῐνοις -ĭnois |
-ῐναις -ĭnais |
-ῐνοις -ĭnois | |||||
| Accusative | -ῐνον -ĭnon |
-ῐνην -ĭnēn |
-ῐνον -ĭnon |
-ῐνω -ĭnō |
-ῐνᾱ -ĭnā |
-ῐνω -ĭnō |
-ῐνους -ĭnous |
-ῐνᾱς -ĭnās |
-ῐνᾰ -ĭnă | |||||
| Vocative | -ῐνε -ĭne |
-ῐνη -ĭnē |
-ῐνον -ĭnon |
-ῐνω -ĭnō |
-ῐνᾱ -ĭnā |
-ῐνω -ĭnō |
-ῐνοι -ĭnoi |
-ῐναι -ĭnai |
-ῐνᾰ -ĭnă | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| -ῐνως -ĭnōs |
-ῐνώτερος -ĭnṓteros |
-ῐνώτᾰτος -ĭnṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ινος
See also
- -ηνός (-ēnós)
References
- “-ινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 844