ἐποποιία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἐποποιῐ́η (epopoiíē) – Epic
Etymology
From ἔπος (épos, “speech, song”) + ποιέω (poiéō, “make, do”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.po.poi̯.í.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.po.pyˈi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.po.pyˈi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.po.pyˈi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.po.piˈi.a/
Noun
ἐποποιῐ́ᾱ • (epopoiíā) f (genitive ἐποποιῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- epic poetry or an epic poem
- Herodotus, Histories 2.116, (Compare Aristotle, Poetics 24)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἐποποιῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἐποποιῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐποποιῐ́ᾱ hē epopoiíā | τὼ ἐποποιῐ́ᾱ tṑ epopoiíā | αἱ ἐποποιῐ́αι hai epopoiíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐποποιῐ́ᾱς tês epopoiíās | τοῖν ἐποποιῐ́αιν toîn epopoiíain | τῶν ἐποποιῐῶν tôn epopoiiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐποποιῐ́ᾳ têi epopoiíāi | τοῖν ἐποποιῐ́αιν toîn epopoiíain | ταῖς ἐποποιῐ́αις taîs epopoiíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐποποιῐ́ᾱν tḕn epopoiíān | τὼ ἐποποιῐ́ᾱ tṑ epopoiíā | τᾱ̀ς ἐποποιῐ́ᾱς tā̀s epopoiíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐποποιῐ́ᾱ epopoiíā | ἐποποιῐ́ᾱ epopoiíā | ἐποποιῐ́αι epopoiíai | ||||||||||
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References
- “ἐποποιία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐποποιία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐποποιία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette