ἄγρυπνος
See also: άγρυπνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀγρός (agrós, “field”) + ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”). The original meaning was "who sleeps outside", which developed into "sleepless, awake".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.ɡry.pnos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡry.pnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣry.pnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣry.pnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɣri.pnos/
Adjective
ἄγρῠπνος • (ágrupnos) m or f (neuter ἄγρῠπνου); second declension
- wakeful, sleepless, vigilant
- banishing sleep, keeping awake
Inflection
Second declension of ἄγρῠπνος; ἄγρῠπνον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | ἄγρῠπνος ágrupnos | ἄγρῠπνον ágrupnon | ἀγρῠ́πνω agrúpnō | ἀγρῠ́πνω agrúpnō | ἄγρῠπνοι ágrupnoi | ἄγρῠπνᾰ ágrupna | ||||||||
Genitive | ἀγρῠ́πνου agrúpnou | ἀγρῠ́πνου agrúpnou | ἀγρῠ́πνοιν agrúpnoin | ἀγρῠ́πνοιν agrúpnoin | ἀγρῠ́πνων agrúpnōn | ἀγρῠ́πνων agrúpnōn | ||||||||
Dative | ἀγρῠ́πνῳ agrúpnōi | ἀγρῠ́πνῳ agrúpnōi | ἀγρῠ́πνοιν agrúpnoin | ἀγρῠ́πνοιν agrúpnoin | ἀγρῠ́πνοις agrúpnois | ἀγρῠ́πνοις agrúpnois | ||||||||
Accusative | ἄγρῠπνον ágrupnon | ἄγρῠπνον ágrupnon | ἀγρῠ́πνω agrúpnō | ἀγρῠ́πνω agrúpnō | ἀγρῠ́πνους agrúpnous | ἄγρῠπνᾰ ágrupna | ||||||||
Vocative | ἄγρῠπνε ágrupne | ἄγρῠπνον ágrupnon | ἀγρῠ́πνω agrúpnō | ἀγρῠ́πνω agrúpnō | ἄγρῠπνοι ágrupnoi | ἄγρῠπνᾰ ágrupna | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ἀγρῠ́πνως agrúpnōs | ἀγρῠπνότερος agrupnóteros | ἀγρῠπνότᾰτος agrupnótatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀγρῠπνέω (agrupnéō)
- ἀγρῠπνητήρ (agrupnētḗr)
- ἀγρῠπνητής (agrupnētḗs)
- ἀγρῠπνητῐκος (agrupnētikos)
- ἀγρῠπνῐ́ᾱ (agrupníā)
- ἀγρῠπνώδης (agrupnṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: άγρυπνος (ágrypnos)
Further reading
- ἄγρυπνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄγρυπνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄγρυπνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄγρυπνος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN