Ancient Greek
Noun
ἔθος • (éthos) n (genitive ἔθεος or ἔθους); third declension
- habit, custom, manner
- disposition, temper
- habitually, customarily (in dative)
Inflection
Third declension of
τὸ ἔθος;
τοῦ ἔθεος (Uncontracted)
| Case / # |
Singular |
Dual |
Plural |
| Nominative |
τὸ ἔθος
|
τὼ ἔθεε
|
τᾰ̀ ἔθεᾰ
|
| Genitive |
τοῦ ἔθεος
|
τοῖν ἐθέοιν
|
τῶν ἐθέων
|
| Dative |
τῷ ἔθεῐ̈
|
τοῖν ἐθέοιν
|
τοῖς ἔθεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative |
τὸ ἔθος
|
τὼ ἔθεε
|
τᾰ̀ ἔθεᾰ
|
| Vocative |
ἔθος
|
ἔθεε
|
ἔθεᾰ
|
| Notes: |
This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
|
Third declension of
τὸ ἔθος;
τοῦ ἔθους (Contracted)
| Case / # |
Singular |
Dual |
Plural |
| Nominative |
τὸ ἔθος
|
τὼ ἔθει
|
τᾰ̀ ἔθη
|
| Genitive |
τοῦ ἔθους
|
τοῖν ἐθοῖν
|
τῶν ἐθῶν
|
| Dative |
τῷ ἔθει
|
τοῖν ἐθοῖν
|
τοῖς ἔθεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative |
τὸ ἔθος
|
τὼ ἔθει
|
τᾰ̀ ἔθη
|
| Vocative |
ἔθος
|
ἔθει
|
ἔθη
|
| Notes: |
This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
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Derived terms
- ἐθικός (ethikós)
- ἦθος (êthos)
References
- ἔθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔθος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ἔθος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «ἔθος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- “G1485”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.