ἁρπίς

Ancient Greek

According to Hesychius, the word is Laconian. The presence of the variant ῥαπίς (rhapís) suggests a Pre-Greek origin of this word.

ἁρπῐ́ς • (harpís) f (genitive ἁρπῖδος); third declension

Third declension of ἡ ἁρπῐ́ς; τῆς ἁρπῖδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἁρπῐ́ς hē harpís	τὼ ἁρπῖδε tṑ harpîde	αἱ ἁρπῖδες hai harpîdes
Genitive	τῆς ἁρπῖδος tês harpîdos	τοῖν ἁρπῑ́δοιν toîn harpī́doin	τῶν ἁρπῑ́δων tôn harpī́dōn
Dative	τῇ ἁρπῖδῐ têi harpîdi	τοῖν ἁρπῑ́δοιν toîn harpī́doin	ταῖς ἁρπῖσῐ / ἁρπῖσῐν taîs harpîsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἁρπῖδᾰ tḕn harpîda	τὼ ἁρπῖδε tṑ harpîde	τᾱ̀ς ἁρπῖδᾰς tā̀s harpîdas
Vocative	ἁρπῐ́ς harpís	ἁρπῖδε harpîde	ἁρπῖδες harpîdes
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.