σής

Ancient Greek

A Semitic loanword.^[1]

σής • (sḗs) m (genitive σεός); third declension

Old declension:

Third declension of ὁ σής; τοῦ σέος (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σής ho sḗs	τὼ σέε tṑ sée	οἱ σέες hoi sées
Genitive	τοῦ σέος toû séos	τοῖν σέοιν toîn séoin	τῶν σέων tôn séōn
Dative	τῷ σέῐ̈ tôi séï	τοῖν σέοιν toîn séoin	τοῖς σέσῐ(ν) toîs sési(n)
Accusative	τὸν σέᾰ tòn séa	τὼ σέε tṑ sée	τοὺς σέᾰς toùs séas
Vocative	σές sés	σέε sée	σέες sées
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Later declension:

Third declension of ὁ σής; τοῦ σητός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σής ho sḗs	τὼ σῆτε tṑ sête	οἱ σῆτες hoi sêtes
Genitive	τοῦ σητός toû sētós	τοῖν σητοῖν toîn sētoîn	τῶν σητῶν tôn sētôn
Dative	τῷ σητῐ́ tôi sētí	τοῖν σητοῖν toîn sētoîn	τοῖς σησῐ́(ν) toîs sēsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν σῆτᾰ tòn sêta	τὼ σῆτε tṑ sête	τοὺς σῆτᾰς toùs sêtas
Vocative	σής sḗs	σῆτε sête	σῆτες sêtes
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 *-ts.

↑ 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, page 1325