-ιμος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- -μος (-mos)
- -σιμος (-simos)
Suffix
-ῐμος • (-imos) m, f (neuter -ῐμον); second declension
- Added to the stems of verbs or verbal nouns in -σις (-sis) to form an adjective of possibility or capability: -able, -ible, -like, -ed
- δοκέω (dokéō, “seem good”) + -ιμος (-imos) → δόκιμος (dókimos, “approved”)
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | -ῐμος -imos |
-ῐμον -imon |
-ῐμω -imō |
-ῐμω -imō |
-ῐμοι -imoi |
-ῐμᾰ -ima | ||||||||
| Genitive | -ῐμου -imou |
-ῐμου -imou |
-ῐμοιν -imoin |
-ῐμοιν -imoin |
-ῐμων -imōn |
-ῐμων -imōn | ||||||||
| Dative | -ῐμῳ -imōi |
-ῐμῳ -imōi |
-ῐμοιν -imoin |
-ῐμοιν -imoin |
-ῐμοις -imois |
-ῐμοις -imois | ||||||||
| Accusative | -ῐμον -imon |
-ῐμον -imon |
-ῐμω -imō |
-ῐμω -imō |
-ῐμους -imous |
-ῐμᾰ -ima | ||||||||
| Vocative | -ῐμε -ime |
-ῐμον -imon |
-ῐμω -imō |
-ῐμω -imō |
-ῐμοι -imoi |
-ῐμᾰ -ima | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| -ῐμως -imōs |
-ῐμώτερος -imṓteros |
-ῐμώτᾰτος -imṓtatos | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | |||||||||||||
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 858.9
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