ἀβραμίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀβραβίς (abrabís), ἄβραμις (ábramis)

Etymology

According to Beekes, either Pre-Greek or a loan from Egyptian

(rm, “tilapia”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.bra.mís/ → /a.βraˈmis/ → /a.vraˈmis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.bra.mís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.braˈmis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.βraˈmis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.vraˈmis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.vraˈmis/

Noun

ἀβρᾰμῐ́ς • (abramís) f (genitive ἀβρᾰμῐ́δος); third declension

1. a kind of mullet salted in Egypt

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἀβρᾰμῐ́ς; τῆς ἀβρᾰμῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀβρᾰμῐ́ς hē abramís	τὼ ἀβρᾰμῐ́δε tṑ abramíde	αἱ ἀβρᾰμῐ́δες hai abramídes
Genitive	τῆς ἀβρᾰμῐ́δος tês abramídos	τοῖν ἀβρᾰμῐ́δοιν toîn abramídoin	τῶν ἀβρᾰμῐ́δων tôn abramídōn
Dative	τῇ ἀβρᾰμῐ́δῐ têi abramídi	τοῖν ἀβρᾰμῐ́δοιν toîn abramídoin	ταῖς ἀβρᾰμῐ́σῐ / ἀβρᾰμῐ́σῐν taîs abramísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀβρᾰμῐ́δᾰ tḕn abramída	τὼ ἀβρᾰμῐ́δε tṑ abramíde	τᾱ̀ς ἀβρᾰμῐ́δᾰς tā̀s abramídas
Vocative	ἀβρᾰμῐ́ς abramís	ἀβρᾰμῐ́δε abramíde	ἀβρᾰμῐ́δες abramídes
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.

Derived terms

• ἀβραμίδιον (abramídion)

Descendants

• → New Latin: Abramis (learned)

Further reading

• “ἀβραμίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀβραμίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀβραμίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN