Ancient Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *-s. Cognate with Latin -s.

Suffix

• (-sm or f or n (genitive -ος); third declension

  1. suffix of nouns in the third declension.

Usage notes

Inflections merge with the stem. See Appendix:Ancient Greek third declension.

Declension

Suffix

• (-sm (genitive -∅); first declension

  1. suffix added to some masculine foreign names to make them declinable

Declension

See also