ἀστραπή
See also: αστραπή
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀστεροπή (asteropḗ)
Etymology
ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) + ὀπή (opḗ, “sight, hole”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /as.tra.pɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /as.traˈpe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /as.traˈpi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /as.traˈpi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /as.traˈpi/
Noun
ἀστρᾰπή • (astrapḗ) f (genitive ἀστρᾰπῆς); first declension
- lightning
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἀστραπή; τῆς ἀστραπῆς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀστραπή hē astrapḗ | τὼ ἀστραπᾱ́ tṑ astrapā́ | αἱ ἀστραπαί hai astrapaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀστραπῆς tês astrapês | τοῖν ἀστραπαῖν toîn astrapaîn | τῶν ἀστραπῶν tôn astrapôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀστραπῇ têi astrapêi | τοῖν ἀστραπαῖν toîn astrapaîn | ταῖς ἀστραπαῖς taîs astrapaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀστραπήν tḕn astrapḗn | τὼ ἀστραπᾱ́ tṑ astrapā́ | τᾱ̀ς ἀστραπᾱ́ς tā̀s astrapā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀστραπή astrapḗ | ἀστραπᾱ́ astrapā́ | ἀστραπαί astrapaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αστραπή (astrapí)
Further reading
- “ἀστραπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀστραπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀστραπή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀστραπή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G796 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀστραπή 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.
- flash idem, page 326.
- glance idem, page 361.
- gleam idem, page 361.
- lightning idem, page 491.
- twinkle idem, page 903.