αὐλωπίας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from αὐλός (aulós, “tube, pipe”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “face”) + -ῐ́ᾱς (-íās), but compare also ἀλλοπίας (allopías, “kind of tuna”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /au̯.lɔː.pí.aːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aw.loˈpi.as/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.βloˈpi.as/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.vloˈpi.as/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.vloˈpi.as/
Noun
αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς • (aulōpíās) m (genitive αὐλωπῐ́ου); first declension
- unknown kind of fish, perhaps:
- dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus), or
- albacore (Thunnus alalunga)
Inflection
First declension of ὁ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ αὐλωπῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς ho aulōpíās | τὼ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ tṑ aulōpíā | οἱ αὐλωπῐ́αι hoi aulōpíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ αὐλωπῐ́ου toû aulōpíou | τοῖν αὐλωπῐ́αιν toîn aulōpíain | τῶν αὐλωπῐῶν tôn aulōpiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ αὐλωπῐ́ᾳ tôi aulōpíāi | αὐλωπῐ́αιν aulōpíain | τοῖς αὐλωπῐ́αις toîs aulōpíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν αὐλωπῐ́ᾱν tòn aulōpíān | αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ aulōpíā | τοὺς αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς toùs aulōpíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ aulōpíā | αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ aulōpíā | αὐλωπῐ́αι aulōpíai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- αὐλωπίας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- αὐλωπίας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὐλωπίας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN