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See also: ήμισυς

ἥμῐσυς • ‎(hḗmisus) m ‎(feminine ἡμίσεια, neuter ἥμισυ); first/third declension

First and third declension of ἥμῐσυς, ἡμῐ́σειᾰ, ἥμῐσυ

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ἥμῐσυς	ἡμῐ́σειᾰ	ἥμῐσυ	ἡμῐ́σεε	ἡμῐσείᾱ	ἡμῐ́σεε	ἡμῐ́σεις	ἡμῐ́σειαι	ἥμῐσεᾰ
Genitive	ἡμῐ́σεος	ἡμῐσείᾱς	ἡμῐ́σεος	ἡμῐσέοιν	ἡμῐσείαιν	ἡμῐσέοιν	ἡμῐσέων	ἡμῐσειῶν	ἡμῐσέων
Dative	ἡμῐ́σει	ἡμῐσείᾳ	ἡμῐ́σει	ἡμῐσέοιν	ἡμῐσείαιν	ἡμῐσέοιν	ἡμῐ́σεσι(ν)	ἡμῐσείαις	ἡμῐ́σεσι(ν)
Accusative	ἥμῐσυν	ἡμῐ́σειᾰν	ἥμῐσυ	ἡμῐ́σεε	ἡμῐσείᾱ	ἡμῐ́σεε	ἡμῐ́σεις	ἡμῐσείᾱς	ἥμῐσεᾰ
Vocative	ἥμῐσυ	ἡμῐ́σειᾰ	ἥμῐσυ	ἡμῐ́σεε	ἡμῐσείᾱ	ἡμῐ́σεε	ἡμῐ́σεις	ἡμῐ́σειαι	ἥμῐσεᾰ

Contracted forms abound for this word, including: ἡμῐ́σους and ἡμῐ́σεως (m, s, gen.) and ἡμῐ́ση (n, pl, nom. & acc.).

This is one of the three adjectives in -ύς, -εῖα, -ύ, along with θῆλυς ‎(thêlus) and πρέσβυς ‎(présbus), to have a recessive accent.

ἥμισυς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἥμισυς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἥμισυς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
«ἥμισυς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
«ἥμισυς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἥμισυς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
“G2255”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- half idem, page 381.