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ὀσφύς (osphys): all forms

ὀσφύς means “loin; loins, lower part of the back”. Below is its full declension in Ancient Greek.

Forms

Forms, singular
Feminine
Nominativeὀσφύς
Genitiveὀσφύος
Dativeὀσφύϊ · ὀσφυῖ
Accusativeὀσφύν · ὀσφῦν · ὀσφύα
Vocativeὀσφύ · ὀσφῦ
Forms, plural
Feminine
Nominativeὀσφύες · ὀσφῦς
Genitiveὀσφύων
Dativeὀσφύσι(ν)
Accusativeὀσφῦς · ὀσφύας · ὀσφύς
Vocativeὀσφύες · ὀσφῦς

Meaning and examples of ὀσφύς

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.