λοπάς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly from λοπός (lopós, “shell, scale; bark”) + -ᾰ́ς (-ás). Ultimately from the same root of λέπω (lépō, “to peel”). See also λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”) for a similar derivation.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lo.pás/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /loˈpas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /loˈpas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /loˈpas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /loˈpas/
Noun
λοπᾰ́ς • (lopás) f (genitive λοπᾰ́δος); third declension
- flat dish, plate
- pan
- A plant disease
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ λοπᾰ́ς; τῆς λοπᾰ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λοπᾰ́ς hē lopás | τὼ λοπᾰ́δε tṑ lopáde | αἱ λοπᾰ́δες hai lopádes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λοπᾰ́δος tês lopádos | τοῖν λοπᾰ́δοιν toîn lopádoin | τῶν λοπᾰ́δων tôn lopádōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λοπᾰ́δῐ têi lopádi | τοῖν λοπᾰ́δοιν toîn lopádoin | ταῖς λοπᾰ́σῐ / λοπᾰ́σῐν taîs lopási(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λοπᾰ́δᾰ tḕn lopáda | τὼ λοπᾰ́δε tṑ lopáde | τᾱ̀ς λοπᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s lopádas | ||||||||||
Vocative | λοπᾰ́ς lopás | λοπᾰ́δε lopáde | λοπᾰ́δες lopádes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “λοπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λοπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λοπάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- charger idem, page 125.
- dish idem, page 234.
- plate idem, page 618.
- 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, page 871