ἴασπις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A loanword, possibly Egyptian in origin. Compare Biblical Hebrew יָשְׁפֵה (yāšəfēh, “jasper”), Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒅀𒀸𒁍 (/yašpû/, “name of a stone”) (whence Classical Syriac ܝܫܦܐ (jaʃpɑ(ʔ), “jasper”)). Persian یشپ (yašp) is from the same source.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /í.as.pis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.as.pis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.as.pis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.as.pis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.as.pis/
Noun
ῐ̓́ᾰσπῐς • (íaspis) f (genitive ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδος); third declension
- jasper
- black turnip (Bongardia chrysogonum)
- Synonyms: ἀρκόφθαλμον (arkóphthalmon), χρῡσόγονον (khrūsógonon)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ῐ̓́ᾰσπῐς; τῆς ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῐ̓́ᾰσπῐς hē íaspis | τὼ ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδε tṑ iáspide | αἱ ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδες hai iáspides | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδος tês iáspidos | τοῖν ῐ̓ᾰσπῐ́δοιν toîn iaspídoin | τῶν ῐ̓ᾰσπῐ́δων tôn iaspídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδῐ têi iáspidi | τοῖν ῐ̓ᾰσπῐ́δοιν toîn iaspídoin | ταῖς ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐσῐ / ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐσῐν taîs iáspisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδᾰ tḕn iáspida | τὼ ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδε tṑ iáspide | τᾱ̀ς ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδᾰς tā̀s iáspidas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῐ̓́ᾰσπῐς íaspis | ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδε iáspide | ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδες iáspides | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰασπαχάτης (iaspakhátēs)
- ἰασπίζω (iaspízō)
- ἰασπόνυξ (iaspónux)
Descendants
- Latin: iaspis, jaspis (see there for further descendants)
- Old Armenian: յասպիս (yaspis), յասպի (yaspi)
- Georgian: იასპი (iasṗi)
References
- “ἴασπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἴασπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἴασπις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2393 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- jasper idem, page 462.
- 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