Τέμπη

Τέμπη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Τέμπεᾰ (Témpea) – uncontracted

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tém.pɛː/ → /ˈtem.pi/ → /ˈtem.bi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tém.pɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtem.pe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtem.pi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtem.pi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtem.bi/

Proper noun

Τέμπη • (Témpē) n pl (genitive Τεμπῶν); third declension

1. the Vale of Tempe, Thessaly, Greece

Inflection

Third declension of τᾰ̀ Τέμπη; τῶν Τεμπῶν (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ Τέμπη tà Témpē
Genitive	τῶν Τεμπῶν tôn Tempôn
Dative	τοῖς Τέμπεσῐ / Τέμπεσῐν toîs Témpesi(n)
Accusative	τᾰ̀ Τέμπη tà Témpē
Vocative	Τέμπη Témpē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Τεμπῐκός (Tempikós)
• Τεμπῐ́ς (Tempís)

Descendants

• Greek: Τέμπη (Témpi)
• Latin: Tempē

References

• “Τέμπεα”, 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 1,026
• Τέμπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette