Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Τίγρις ‎(Tígris)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /tíɣris/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tíɣris/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tíɣɾis/

Proper noun

Τίγρης • ‎(Tígrēs) m ‎(genitive Τίγρητος); third declension

1. the river Tigris

Inflection

Descendants

• Armenian: Տիգրիս ‎(Tigris)
• Greek: Τίγρης ‎(Tígris), Τίγρητας ‎(Tígritas)
• Latin: Tigris

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,028

1. ↑ Jahanshah Derakhshani, “Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan: Evidence from the 4th and 3rd Millennium B.C.”, Iran and the Caucasus, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 2001), 11.

Greek

Noun

τίγρης • ‎(tígris)

1. tiger