ῥόπαλον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from ῥέπω (rhépō, “to decline, descend”), but perhaps not related to the verb.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ó.pa.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈro.pa.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈro.pa.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈro.pa.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈro.pa.lon/
Noun
ῥόπᾰλον • (rhópalon) n (genitive ῥοπᾰ́λου); second declension
- club, cudgel, mace shod with metal
- Synonym: κορύνη (korúnē)
- hunter's staff
- penis
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ῥόπᾰλον; τοῦ ῥοπᾰ́λου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ῥόπᾰλον tò rhópalon | τὼ ῥοπᾰ́λω tṑ rhopálō | τᾰ̀ ῥόπᾰλᾰ tà rhópala | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥοπᾰ́λου toû rhopálou | τοῖν ῥοπᾰ́λοιν toîn rhopáloin | τῶν ῥοπᾰ́λων tôn rhopálōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥοπᾰ́λῳ tôi rhopálōi | τοῖν ῥοπᾰ́λοιν toîn rhopáloin | τοῖς ῥοπᾰ́λοις toîs rhopálois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ῥόπᾰλον tò rhópalon | τὼ ῥοπᾰ́λω tṑ rhopálō | τᾰ̀ ῥόπᾰλᾰ tà rhópala | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥόπᾰλον rhópalon | ῥοπᾰ́λω rhopálō | ῥόπᾰλᾰ rhópala | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ῥοπαλίζει (rhopalízei)
- ῥοπαλικός (rhopalikós)
- ῥοπάλιον (rhopálion)
- ῥοπαλισμός (rhopalismós)
- ῥοπαλοειδής (rhopaloeidḗs)
- ῥοπαλομάχος (rhopalomákhos)
- ῥοπαλοφόρος (rhopalophóros)
- ῥοπαλώδης (rhopalṓdēs)
- ῥοπάλωσις (rhopálōsis)
- ῥοπαλωτός (rhopalōtós)
Descendants
- Greek: ρόπαλο (rópalo)
Further reading
- “ῥόπαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥόπαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥόπαλον 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