νεφρῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis, “a suffix forming a feminine noun, especially a technical term that pertains to the root word”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ne.pʰrîː.tis/ → /neˈɸri.tis/ → /neˈfri.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ne.pʰrîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /neˈpʰri.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /neˈɸri.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /neˈfri.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /neˈfri.tis/

Noun

νεφρῖτις • (nephrîtis) f (genitive νεφρῖτιδος); third declension

1. (medicine) a disease of the kidney

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ νεφρῖτῐς; τῆς νεφρῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νεφρῖτῐς hē nephrîtis	τὼ νεφρῑ́τῐδε tṑ nephrī́tide	αἱ νεφρῑ́τῐδες hai nephrī́tides
Genitive	τῆς νεφρῑ́τῐδος tês nephrī́tidos	τοῖν νεφρῑτῐ́δοιν toîn nephrītídoin	τῶν νεφρῑτῐ́δων tôn nephrītídōn
Dative	τῇ νεφρῑ́τῐδῐ têi nephrī́tidi	τοῖν νεφρῑτῐ́δοιν toîn nephrītídoin	ταῖς νεφρῑ́τῐσῐ / νεφρῑ́τῐσῐν taîs nephrī́tisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν νεφρῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn nephrī́tida	τὼ νεφρῑ́τῐδε tṑ nephrī́tide	τᾱ̀ς νεφρῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s nephrī́tidas
Vocative	νεφρῖτῐς nephrîtis	νεφρῑ́τῐδε nephrī́tide	νεφρῑ́τῐδες nephrī́tides
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.