singular
|
nom |
|
ὁ |
δεσπότ |
ης |
|
gen |
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τοῦ |
δεσπότ |
ου |
dat |
|
τῷ |
δεσπότ |
ῃ |
acc |
|
τὸν |
δεσπότ |
ην |
voc |
|
ὦ |
δέσποτ |
α |
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plural
|
nom |
|
οἱ |
δεσπότ |
αι |
|
gen |
|
τῶν |
δεσποτ |
ῶν |
dat |
|
τοῖς |
δεσπότ |
αις |
acc |
|
τοὺς |
δεσπότ |
ας |
voc |
|
ὦ |
δεσπότ |
αι |
|
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Notes
- The genitive plural is always emphasized with a circumflex (sound drawn out, voice going up and then down again) on the last syllable.
For all 1st declension nouns, masculine as well as feminine.
- Accentuation
All endings are long, except for the vocative singular and the nominative/vocative plural.
In the singular, the vocative always ends in α.
And it behaves a little strangely: Sometimes, like here, it moves to the antepenult (if the penult is short) , sometimes, although it stays put, it changes to a circumflex (if the penult is long), e.g.
ὁ πολίτης, τοῦ πολίτου, ὦ πολῖτα
Your book will indicate by a macron that the penult is long, I won't do that, because some Unicode fonts have trouble in producing a legible macron (in combination with other diacritics), Arial Unicode MS for instance, and others display little boxes or @ instead. So, no macrons on my pages, except very occasionally. Sorry.
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