μώλωψ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Beekes dismisses a derivation from ὤψ (ṓps, “face”) and prefers to derive it from Pre-Greek, comparing other words ending in "-ωψ", like κύνωψ (kúnōps) and κώνωψ (kṓnōps).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɔ̌ː.lɔːps/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lops/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lops/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lops/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lops/
Noun
μώλωψ • (mṓlōps) m (genitive μώλωπος); third declension
- mark of a stripe, weal, bruise
Declension
Third declension of ὁ μώλωψ; τοῦ μώλωπος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μώλωψ ho mṓlōps | τὼ μώλωπε tṑ mṓlōpe | οἱ μώλωπες hoi mṓlōpes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μώλωπος toû mṓlōpos | τοῖν μωλώποιν toîn mōlṓpoin | τῶν μωλώπων tôn mōlṓpōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μώλωπῐ tôi mṓlōpi | τοῖν μωλώποιν toîn mōlṓpoin | τοῖς μώλωψῐ / μώλωψῐν toîs mṓlōpsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μώλωπᾰ tòn mṓlōpa | τὼ μώλωπε tṑ mṓlōpe | τοὺς μώλωπᾰς toùs mṓlōpas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μώλωψ mṓlōps | μώλωπε mṓlōpe | μώλωπες mṓlōpes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μωλωπίζω (mōlōpízō)
- μωλωπικός (mōlōpikós)
Further reading
- μώλωψ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μώλωψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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