ἶπος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. One could compare ἰψών (ipsṓn, “prison”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /îː.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.pos/
Noun
ἶπος • (îpos) f (genitive ἴ̄που); second declension
- piece of wood in a mousetrap, that falls and catches the rodent
- press of a fuller or for medical purposes
Inflection
Second declension of ἡ ἶπος; τῆς ῑ̓́που (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἶπος hē îpos | τὼ ῑ̓́πω tṑ ī́pō | αἱ ἶποι hai îpoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῑ̓́που tês ī́pou | τοῖν ῑ̓́ποιν toîn ī́poin | τῶν ῑ̓́πων tôn ī́pōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῑ̓́πῳ têi ī́pōi | τοῖν ῑ̓́ποιν toîn ī́poin | ταῖς ῑ̓́ποις taîs ī́pois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἶπον tḕn îpon | τὼ ῑ̓́πω tṑ ī́pō | τᾱ̀ς ῑ̓́πους tā̀s ī́pous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἶπε îpe | ῑ̓́πω ī́pō | ἶποι îpoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰπόω (ipóō)
- ἴπωσις (ípōsis)
- ἰπωτήριον (ipōtḗrion)
- ἰπωτρίς (ipōtrís)
Further reading
- ἶπος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἶπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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