τινος (tinos)

τινος is an Ancient Greek form of τις, meaning “someone, anyone, a certain; some”. It is the genitive singular masculine pronoun.

Found 4,499 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.24.4: στασιάσαντες δὲ ἐν ἀλλήλοις ἔτη πολλά, ὡς λέγεται, ἀπὸ πολέμου τινὸς τῶν προσοίκων βαρβάρων ἐφθάρησαν καὶ τῆς δυνάμεως τῆς πολλῆς ἐστερήθησαν.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.81: … ιβλίον, πρὸς τὸν αἰτιασάμενον, ἐγω μὲν γάρ, εἶπεν, ἀργυρίων, Πλάτων δὲ βιβλίων ἐστὶν ἐνδεής. πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα τίνος ἕνεκα ἐλέγχεται παρὰ Διονυσίου, οὗ ἕνεκα, φησίν, οἱ ἄλλοι ἐλέγχουσιν.

Euripides, Andromache 1125: Τίνος μ’ ἕκατι κτείνετ’ εὐσεβεῖς ὁδοὺς

All forms of τις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.