Ἔμπουσα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A folk etymology construes the name to mean "one-footed", from ἐν- (en-) + πούς (poús, “foot”). However, as Beekes notes, the word is probably Pre-Greek in view of the suffix -ουσα; compare ἄγχουσα (ánkhousa), αἴθουσα (aíthousa), κάδουσα (kádousa) and νήθουσα (nḗthousa).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ém.puː.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈem.pu.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈem.pu.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈem.pu.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈem.bu.sa/
Proper noun
Ἔμπουσᾰ • (Émpousa) f (genitive Ἐμπούσης); first declension
- (mythology) Empusa, kind of one-legged spectre assuming various shapes, said to be sent by Hecate
Inflection
First declension of ἡ Ἔμπουσᾰ; τῆς Ἐμπούσης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Ἔμπουσᾰ hē Émpousa | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Ἐμπούσης tês Empoúsēs | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Ἐμπούσῃ têi Empoúsēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Ἔμπουσᾰν tḕn Émpousan | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ἔμπουσᾰ Émpousa | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: empusa, empousa
- Greek: Έμπουσα (Émpousa)
- → Latin: Empūsa
- → Translingual: Empusa
Further reading
- “Ἔμπουσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἔμπουσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Ἔμπουσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “Ἔμπουσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 419