Ἑσπερίς

Ancient Greek

From Ἕσπερος (Hésperos, “Hesperus”) +‎ -ῐς (-is).

Ἑσπερῐ́ς • (Hesperís) f (genitive Ἑσπερῐ́δος); third declension

one of the Hesperides; a Hesperid
A city in Cyrenaica, Libya, also called Εὐεσπερίδες (Euesperídes), relocated and renamed in the mid of the 3rd century BCE to Βερενίκη (Bereníkē), now known as Benghazi

Third declension of ἡ Ἑσπερῐ́ς; τῆς Ἑσπερῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Ἑσπερῐ́ς hē Hesperís	τὼ Ἑσπερῐ́δε tṑ Hesperíde	αἱ Ἑσπερῐ́δες hai Hesperídes
Genitive	τῆς Ἑσπερῐ́δος tês Hesperídos	τοῖν Ἑσπερῐ́δοιν toîn Hesperídoin	τῶν Ἑσπερῐ́δων tôn Hesperídōn
Dative	τῇ Ἑσπερῐ́δῐ têi Hesperídi	τοῖν Ἑσπερῐ́δοιν toîn Hesperídoin	ταῖς Ἑσπερῐ́σῐ / Ἑσπερῐ́σῐν taîs Hesperísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν Ἑσπερῐ́δᾰ tḕn Hesperída	τὼ Ἑσπερῐ́δε tṑ Hesperíde	τᾱ̀ς Ἑσπερῐ́δᾰς tā̀s Hesperídas
Vocative	Ἑσπερῐ́ς Hesperís	Ἑσπερῐ́δε Hesperíde	Ἑσπερῐ́δες Hesperídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

“Ἑσπερίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013
“Ἑσπερίς” at Trismegistos (TM Geo 831)
History of Benghazi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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