Case Endings or Formative Suffixes of Nouns:
THE FOLLOWING endings were fused to the stem of nouns and adjectives to form the various cases, numbers, and genders.
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Vowel Declension
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Consonant Declension
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First
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Second
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Third (consonant)
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singular
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| Masc. | Fem. | M. and F. | Neut. | M. and F. | Neut. | |
| Nom. | - ς | none | - ς | - ν | - ς (none) | none |
| Gen. | - ο | - ς | - ο (ιο) | - ο (ιο) | - ος | - ος |
| Dat. | -ι | - ι | - ι | - ι | - ι | - ι |
| Acc. | - ν | - ν | - ν | - ν | - ν, α | none |
| Voc. | none | none | none | - ν | - ς | none |
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Dual
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| N. A. V. | none | none | none | none | - ε | - ε |
| G. D. | - ιιν | - ιιν | - ιιν | - ιιν | - οιιν | - οιιν |
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Plural
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| N. V. | - ι | - ι | - ι | - ᾰ | - ες | - ᾰ |
| Gen. | - ων | - ων | - ων | - ων | - ων | - ων |
| Dat. | - (ι)σι, ις | - (ι)σι, ις | - (ι)σι, ις | - (ι)σι, ις | - σ(σ)ι | - σ(σ)ι |
| Acc. | - νς | - νς | - νς | - ᾰ | - νς | - ᾰ |
- Forms in parenthesis ( ) are contracted.
μ, ν, ντ, νδ, νθ, ρ, and λ are regularly dropped when they occurred before a σ , and the preceding vowel is lengthen (ε → ει, ο → ου, α → ᾱ, ι → ῑ, υ → ῡ).
