δίπτυχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From δι- (di-) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ) + -ος (-os)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /díp.ty.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈdip.ty.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈðip.ty.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈðip.ty.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈðip.ti.xos/
Adjective
δίπτῠχος • (díptŭkhos) m or f (neuter δίπτῠχον); second declension
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | δῐ́πτῠχος dĭ́ptŭkhos |
δῐ́πτῠχον dĭ́ptŭkhon |
δῐπτῠ́χω dĭptŭ́khō |
δῐπτῠ́χω dĭptŭ́khō |
δῐ́πτῠχοι dĭ́ptŭkhoi |
δῐ́πτῠχᾰ dĭ́ptŭkhă | ||||||||
| Genitive | δῐπτῠ́χου dĭptŭ́khou |
δῐπτῠ́χου dĭptŭ́khou |
δῐπτῠ́χοιν dĭptŭ́khoin |
δῐπτῠ́χοιν dĭptŭ́khoin |
δῐπτῠ́χων dĭptŭ́khōn |
δῐπτῠ́χων dĭptŭ́khōn | ||||||||
| Dative | δῐπτῠ́χῳ dĭptŭ́khōi |
δῐπτῠ́χῳ dĭptŭ́khōi |
δῐπτῠ́χοιν dĭptŭ́khoin |
δῐπτῠ́χοιν dĭptŭ́khoin |
δῐπτῠ́χοις dĭptŭ́khois |
δῐπτῠ́χοις dĭptŭ́khois | ||||||||
| Accusative | δῐ́πτῠχον dĭ́ptŭkhon |
δῐ́πτῠχον dĭ́ptŭkhon |
δῐπτῠ́χω dĭptŭ́khō |
δῐπτῠ́χω dĭptŭ́khō |
δῐπτῠ́χους dĭptŭ́khous |
δῐ́πτῠχᾰ dĭ́ptŭkhă | ||||||||
| Vocative | δῐ́πτῠχε dĭ́ptŭkhe |
δῐ́πτῠχον dĭ́ptŭkhon |
δῐπτῠ́χω dĭptŭ́khō |
δῐπτῠ́χω dĭptŭ́khō |
δῐ́πτῠχοι dĭ́ptŭkhoi |
δῐ́πτῠχᾰ dĭ́ptŭkhă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| δίπτῠχᾰ díptŭkhă |
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Descendants
Most are nouns derived from the neuter singular δίπτυχον (díptukhon) or the neuter plural δίπτυχα (díptukha)
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: диптих (diptih)
- → Czech: diptych
- → Danish: diptykon
- → English: diptych
- → Esperanto: diptiko
- → Estonian: diptühhon
- → Finnish: diptyykki
- → Georgian: დიპტიქი (diṗṭiki)
- → German: Diptychon
- Greek: δίπτυχο (díptycho)
- → Irish: diptic
- → Japanese: ディプティク (diputiku)
- → Latin: diptycha
- → Latvian: diptihs
- → Lithuanian: diptikas
- → Polish: dyptyk
- → Russian: ди́птих (díptix)
- → Serbo-Croatian: diptih
- → Swedish: diptyk
Further reading
- “δίπτυχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δίπτυχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δίπτυχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δίπτυχος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- δίπτυχος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “δίπτυχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.