ἠπειρῶτις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἤπειρος (ḗpeiros, “mainland”) + -ις (-is, feminine demonymic suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛː.peː.rɔ̂ː.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e̝.piˈro.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.piˈro.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.piˈro.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.piˈro.tis/
Noun
ἠπειρῶτῐς • (ēpeirôtis) f (genitive ἠπειρώτῐδος); third declension
- female mainland dweller, mainlander
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἠπειρῶτῐς; τῆς ἠπειρώτῐδος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἠπειρῶτῐς hē ēpeirôtis | τὼ ἠπειρώτῐδε tṑ ēpeirṓtide | αἱ ἠπειρώτῐδες hai ēpeirṓtides | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἠπειρώτῐδος tês ēpeirṓtidos | τοῖν ἠπειρωτῐ́δοιν toîn ēpeirōtídoin | τῶν ἠπειρωτῐ́δων tôn ēpeirōtídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἠπειρώτῐδῐ têi ēpeirṓtidi | τοῖν ἠπειρωτῐ́δοιν toîn ēpeirōtídoin | ταῖς ἠπειρώτῐσῐ / ἠπειρώτῐσῐν taîs ēpeirṓtisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἠπειρώτῐδᾰ tḕn ēpeirṓtida | τὼ ἠπειρώτῐδε tṑ ēpeirṓtide | τᾱ̀ς ἠπειρώτῐδᾰς tā̀s ēpeirṓtidas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἠπειρῶτῐς ēpeirôtis | ἠπειρώτῐδε ēpeirṓtide | ἠπειρώτῐδες ēpeirṓtides | ||||||||||
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Coordinate terms
- ἠπειρώτης m (ēpeirṓtēs)
Further reading
- ἠπειρῶτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ἠπειρῶτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- asia idem, page 44.
- eastern idem, page 260.
- mainland idem, page 508.