"-ιμος" meaning in Ancient Greek

See -ιμος in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

Head templates: {{grc-adj-2nd|-ῐμος|-ῐμον}} -ῐμος • (-ĭmos) m or f (neuter -ῐμον); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-adecl|-ῐμος|-ῐμον}} Forms: -ῐμος [canonical], -ĭmos [romanization], -ῐμον [neuter], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], -ῐμος [feminine, masculine, nominative, singular], -ῐμον [neuter, nominative, singular], -ῐμω [dual, feminine, masculine, nominative], -ῐμω [dual, neuter, nominative], -ῐμοι [feminine, masculine, nominative, plural], -ῐμᾰ [neuter, nominative, plural], -ῐμου [feminine, genitive, masculine, singular], -ῐμου [genitive, neuter, singular], -ῐμοιν [dual, feminine, genitive, masculine], -ῐμοιν [dual, genitive, neuter], -ῐμων [feminine, genitive, masculine, plural], -ῐμων [genitive, neuter, plural], -ῐμῳ [dative, feminine, masculine, singular], -ῐμῳ [dative, neuter, singular], -ῐμοιν [dative, dual, feminine, masculine], -ῐμοιν [dative, dual, neuter], -ῐμοις [dative, feminine, masculine, plural], -ῐμοις [dative, neuter, plural], -ῐμον [accusative, feminine, masculine, singular], -ῐμον [accusative, neuter, singular], -ῐμω [accusative, dual, feminine, masculine], -ῐμω [accusative, dual, neuter], -ῐμους [accusative, feminine, masculine, plural], -ῐμᾰ [accusative, neuter, plural], -ῐμε [feminine, masculine, singular, vocative], -ῐμον [neuter, singular, vocative], -ῐμω [dual, feminine, masculine, vocative], -ῐμω [dual, neuter, vocative], -ῐμοι [feminine, masculine, plural, vocative], -ῐμᾰ [neuter, plural, vocative], -ῐμως [adverbial, feminine, masculine, neuter], -ῐμώτερος [comparative, feminine, masculine, neuter], -ῐμώτᾰτος [feminine, masculine, neuter, superlative], -μος [alternative], -σιμος [alternative]
  1. Added to the stems of verbs or verbal nouns in -σις (-sis) to form an adjective of possibility or capability: -able, -ible, -like, -ed Tags: morpheme
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      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
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    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "grc-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Second declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
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    },
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        "masculine",
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        "plural"
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
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      "form": "-μος",
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      "form": "-σιμος",
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      ]
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  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "suffix",
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        "vocative"
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        "masculine",
        "neuter"
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    },
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      "tags": [
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        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "superlative"
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        }
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          "-σις",
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}

Download raw JSONL data for -ιμος meaning in Ancient Greek (5.5kB)

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: -ιμος/Ancient Greek 'Number' base_tags={'l', '2', 'o', 'c', 'i', 'n', 's', 'e', 't', '-', 'd', 'A'}",
  "path": [
    "-ιμος"
  ],
  "section": "Ancient Greek",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "-ιμος",
  "trace": ""
}

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