πτολίπορθος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πτολιπόρθιος (ptolipórthios)
Etymology
From πτόλις (ptólis, “city”) + πέρθω (pérthō, “to sack”) + -ος (-os)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pto.lí.por.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ptoˈli.por.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ptoˈli.por.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ptoˈli.por.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ptoˈli.por.θos/
Noun
πτολίπορθος • (ptolíporthos) m (genitive πτολῐπόρθου); second declension
- (chiefly Epic) sacker of cities (epithet chiefly of Odysseus, sometimes of other heroes or of Ares)
Declension
Second declension of πτολῐ́πορθος; πτολῐπόρθου (Epic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | πτολῐ́πορθος ptolíporthos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | πτολῐπόρθου / πτολῐπορθοῖο / πτολῐπόρθοιο / πτολῐπορθόο / πτολῐπόρθοο ptolipórthou / ptoliporthoîo / ptolipórthoio / ptoliporthóo / ptolipórthoo | ||||||||||||
| Dative | πτολῐπόρθῳ ptolipórthōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | πτολῐ́πορθον ptolíporthon | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | πτολῐ́πορθε ptolíporthe | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- πτολίπορθος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πτολίπορθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πτολίπορθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- πτολίπορθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πτολίπορθος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter