προβοσκίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From προ- (pro-, “before, in front of”) +‎ βόσκω (bóskō, “I feed, I graze”) +‎ -ις (-is, suffix to form a feminine noun).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pro.bos.kís/ → /pro.βosˈcis/ → /pro.vosˈcis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pro.bos.kís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pro.bosˈkis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pro.βosˈcis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pro.vosˈcis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pro.vosˈcis/

Noun

προβοσκίς • (proboskís) f (genitive προβοσκίδος); third declension

1. means of providing food
   1. elephant’s trunk
      1. fly’s proboscis
   2. (in the plural) tentacles of the decapod cephalopoda

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ προβοσκῐ́ς hē proboskĭ́s	τὼ προβοσκῐ́δε tṑ proboskĭ́de	αἱ προβοσκῐ́δες hai proboskĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς προβοσκῐ́δος tês proboskĭ́dos	τοῖν προβοσκῐ́δοιν toîn proboskĭ́doin	τῶν προβοσκῐ́δων tôn proboskĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ προβοσκῐ́δῐ têi proboskĭ́dĭ	τοῖν προβοσκῐ́δοιν toîn proboskĭ́doin	ταῖς προβοσκῐ́σῐ / προβοσκῐ́σῐν taîs proboskĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν προβοσκῐ́δᾰ tḕn proboskĭ́dă	τὼ προβοσκῐ́δε tṑ proboskĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς προβοσκῐ́δᾰς tā̀s proboskĭ́dăs
Vocative	προβοσκῐ́ς proboskĭ́s	προβοσκῐ́δε proboskĭ́de	προβοσκῐ́δες proboskĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Third declension of ἡ προβοσκῐ́ς; τῆς προβοσκῐ́δος (Attic)

Descendants

• ⇒ Greek: προβοσκίδα (provoskída)
• → Latin: proboscis

References

• “προβοσκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press