ἅψος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἅπτω (háptō, “to fasten”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /háp.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ap.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈap.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈap.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈap.sos/
Noun
ἅψος • (hápsos) n (genitive ἅψεος); third declension
- (anatomy) juncture, joint
- Synonym: ἄρθρον (árthron)
- (in the plural) limbs
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ ᾰ̔́ψος; τοῦ ᾰ̔́ψεος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̔́ψος tò hápsos | τὼ ᾰ̔́ψεε tṑ hápsee | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̔́ψεᾰ tà hápsea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̔́ψεος toû hápseos | τοῖν ᾰ̔ψέοιν toîn hapséoin | τῶν ᾰ̔ψέων tôn hapséōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̔́ψεῐ̈ tôi hápseï | τοῖν ᾰ̔ψέοιν toîn hapséoin | τοῖς ᾰ̔́ψεσῐ / ᾰ̔́ψεσῐν toîs hápsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̔́ψος tò hápsos | τὼ ᾰ̔́ψεε tṑ hápsee | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̔́ψεᾰ tà hápsea | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̔́ψος hápsos | ᾰ̔́ψεε hápsee | ᾰ̔́ψεᾰ hápsea | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: hapsus
References
- ἅψος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἅψος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἅψος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἅψος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)