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-της

-της

See also: της, τῆς, and -τής

Ancient Greek

Suffix

-της (-tēs) f (genitive -τητος) third declension

  1. Forms nouns representing a state of being
Declension
Synonyms

References

  • Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 840

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hellenic *-tās (whence also Mycenaean Greek 𐀑𐀴𐀲 (ki-ti-ta, /ktitā(s)/, κτίτης)), probably a masculine formation from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂, feminine of *-tos. Originally used in adjectival compounds, the suffix's narrowing to agentivity may be by analogy to -τηρ (-tēr) and -τωρ (-tōr).[1]

Alternative forms

Suffix

-της (-tēs) m (genitive -του) first declension

  1. Added to noun stems to form masculine nouns of the person concerned with a thing
  2. Added to verb stems to form masculine agent nouns: -er
  3. Added to place names to form masculine demonyms: -ian
Declension

Synonyms

  • (person concerned): -τίς (-tís) (feminine), -εύς (-eús), -ειᾰ (-eia) (feminine), -ίς (-ís) (feminine), -ττᾰ (-tta) (feminine), -σσᾰ (-ssa) (feminine), -αινᾰ (-aina) (feminine)
  • (agent noun): -τίς (-tís) (feminine), -τήρ (-tḗr), -τειρᾰ (-teira) (feminine), -τωρ (-tōr), -τρός (-trós), -τρίᾱ (-tríā) (feminine), -τρίς (-trís) (feminine)
  • (demonym): -τίς (-tís) (feminine), -ίς (-ís) (feminine), -ιος (-ios), -κός (-kós), -ικός (-ikós), -ᾱνός (-ānós) -ηνός (-ēnós), -ῖνος (-înos)

Derived terms

References

  1. Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, § 267

See also

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