ἥμισυς

ἥμῐσῠς • (hḗmĭsŭs) m (feminine ἡμῐ́σειᾰ, neuter ἥμῐσῠ); first/third declension

1. half

This is a rare example of a non-compounded adjective in -ύς, -εῖα, -ύ that has a recessive accent. See also θῆλῠς (thêlŭs), πρέσβῠς (présbŭs), ἐλᾰχῠ́ς (elăkhŭ́s) and λῐγῠ́ς (lĭgŭ́s).

• Byzantine Greek: ἥμῐσος (hḗmĭsos)
  • Greek: μισός (misós)
  • Mariupol Greek: мсо (mso)
• Greek: ημι- (imi-), ήμισυς (ímisys)

ἥμῐσῠς • (hḗmĭsŭs) m (genitive ἡμῐ́σεος or ἡμῐ́σεως or ἡμῐ́σους); third declension

1. half [with genitive ‘of’]

   Alternative forms: ἡμῐ́σειᾰ f (hēmĭ́seiă), ἥμῐσῠ n (hḗmĭsŭ)

• Takes the same gender as its complement, which is in the genitive.

• “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, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • half idem, page 381.