ἀκέφαλος
See also: ακέφαλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, privative alpha) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ké.pʰa.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈke.pʰa.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈce.ɸa.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈce.fa.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈce.fa.los/
Adjective
ᾰ̓κέφᾰλος • (aképhalos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓κέφᾰλον); second declension
- headless
- without beginning
Inflection
Second declension of ᾰ̓κέφᾰλος; ᾰ̓κέφᾰλον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλος aképhalos | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλον aképhalon | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λω akephálō | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λω akephálō | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλοι aképhaloi | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλᾰ aképhala | ||||||||
Genitive | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λου akephálou | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λου akephálou | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λοιν akepháloin | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λοιν akepháloin | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λων akephálōn | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λων akephálōn | ||||||||
Dative | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λῳ akephálōi | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λῳ akephálōi | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λοιν akepháloin | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λοιν akepháloin | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λοις akephálois | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λοις akephálois | ||||||||
Accusative | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλον aképhalon | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλον aképhalon | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λω akephálō | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λω akephálō | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λους akephálous | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλᾰ aképhala | ||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλε aképhale | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλον aképhalon | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λω akephálō | ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λω akephálō | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλοι aképhaloi | ᾰ̓κέφᾰλᾰ aképhala | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ᾰ̓κεφᾰ́λως akephálōs | ᾰ̓κεφᾰλώτερος akephalṓteros | ᾰ̓κεφᾰλώτᾰτος akephalṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ακέφαλος (akéfalos)
- → Latin: acephalus
Further reading
- “ἀκέφαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀκέφαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀκέφαλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀκέφαλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- ἀκέφαλος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- headless idem, page 391.