ὕπερος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὕπερον (húperon)
Etymology
From ὑπέρ (hupér, “over, above”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hý.pe.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.pe.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.pe.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.pe.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.pe.ros/
Noun
ὕπερος • (húperos) m (genitive ὑπέρου); second declension
- pestle
- Synonyms: ἄκμων (ákmōn), ἀλετρίβανος (aletríbanos), δοῖδυξ (doîdux), κόπανον (kópanon), λᾰ́κτῐς (láktis), ναγεύς (nageús)
- club, cudgel
- Synonyms: κορύνη (korúnē), ῥόπαλον (rhópalon)
- lever for stretching dislocated joints
- (zoology) pupa of a geometrid moth
- Synonym: πηνίον (pēníon)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ὕπερος; τοῦ ὑπέρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὕπερος ho húperos | τὼ ὑπέρω tṑ hupérō | οἱ ὕπεροι hoi húperoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὑπέρου toû hupérou | τοῖν ὑπέροιν toîn hupéroin | τῶν ὑπέρων tôn hupérōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὑπέρῳ tôi hupérōi | τοῖν ὑπέροιν toîn hupéroin | τοῖς ὑπέροις toîs hupérois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὕπερον tòn húperon | τὼ ὑπέρω tṑ hupérō | τοὺς ὑπέρους toùs hupérous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὕπερε húpere | ὑπέρω hupérō | ὕπεροι húperoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ὕπερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὕπερος 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