Ἀσωπός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps a combination of the same root as ἄσις (ásis, “slime, mud”) and Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”). Compare Ancient Greek Ἰνωπός (Inōpós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /aː.sɔː.pós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.soˈpos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.soˈpos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.soˈpos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.soˈpos/
Proper noun
Ᾱ̓σωπός • (Āsōpós) m (genitive Ᾱ̓σωποῦ); second declension
- Asopus
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Ᾱ̓σωπός; τοῦ Ᾱ̓σωποῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Ᾱ̓σωπός ho Āsōpós | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Ᾱ̓σωποῦ toû Āsōpoû | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Ᾱ̓σωπῷ tôi Āsōpôi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Ᾱ̓σωπόν tòn Āsōpón | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ᾱ̓σωπέ Āsōpé | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀσωπίς (Asōpís)
- Ἀσώπιος (Asṓpios)
Descendants
- Greek: Ασωπός (Asopós)
- → Latin: Āsōpus
Further reading
- “Ἀσωπός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἀσωπός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “Ἀσωπός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003