ἀλωπεκία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx, “fox”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.lɔː.pe.kí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.lo.peˈki.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.lo.peˈci.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.lo.peˈci.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.lo.peˈci.a/
Noun
ἀλωπεκίᾱ • (alōpekíā) f (genitive ἀλωπεκίᾱs); first declension
- (veterinary medicine) mange in foxes
- (in the plural) bald patches on the head
- (Byzantine) hair loss
- fox's den
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ hē ălōpekĭ́ā |
τὼ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ tṑ ălōpekĭ́ā |
αἱ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́αι hai ălōpekĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱς tês ălōpekĭ́ās |
τοῖν ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́αιν toîn ălōpekĭ́ain |
τῶν ᾰ̓λωπεκῐῶν tôn ălōpekĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾳ tēî ălōpekĭ́āi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́αιν toîn ălōpekĭ́ain |
ταῖς ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́αις taîs ălōpekĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱν tḕn ălōpekĭ́ān |
τὼ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ tṑ ălōpekĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ălōpekĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ ălōpekĭ́ā |
ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ ălōpekĭ́ā |
ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́αι ălōpekĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- ἀλωπεκία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀλωπεκία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἀλωπεκία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἀλωπεκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀλωπεκία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften