ἐμπίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Popular derivation from ἐμπίνω (empínō, “to drink (blood)”). Pokorny connects Proto-West Germanic *imbī (“bee”), deriving both from Proto-Indo-European *h₁empís (“gnat, biting insect”), though Kroonen rejects this comparison and Mallory and Adams call it "not universally accepted."
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /em.pís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /emˈpis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /emˈpis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /emˈpis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /emˈbis/
Noun
ἐμπῐ́ς • (empís) f (genitive ἐμπῐ́δος); third declension
- mosquito, gnat
- larva of the oestrus
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ἐμπῐ́ς; τῆς ἐμπῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐμπῐ́ς hē empís | τὼ ἐμπῐ́δε tṑ empíde | αἱ ἐμπῐ́δες hai empídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐμπῐ́δος tês empídos | τοῖν ἐμπῐ́δοιν toîn empídoin | τῶν ἐμπῐ́δων tôn empídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐμπῐ́δῐ têi empídi | τοῖν ἐμπῐ́δοιν toîn empídoin | ταῖς ἐμπῐ́σῐ / ἐμπῐ́σῐν taîs empísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐμπῐ́δᾰ tḕn empída | τὼ ἐμπῐ́δε tṑ empíde | τᾱ̀ς ἐμπῐ́δᾰς tā̀s empídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐμπῐ́ς empís | ἐμπῐ́δε empíde | ἐμπῐ́δες empídes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Empis
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 311
- Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q., editors (1997) Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 312
Further reading
- “ἐμπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐμπίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐμπίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- 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, page 418