ἀνεψιός

See also: ανεψιός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *népōts (“male descendant”). Some have suggested that it reflects Proto-Indo-European *h₂népōts, due to the initial ἀ-. Alternatively, it results from the prefixation of *sm̥- (“one; together”) in Proto-Indo-European,^[1] but this is problematic, as that would yield *ἁνεψιός (*hanepsiós).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.nep.si.ós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.nep.siˈos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.nep.siˈos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.nep.siˈos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.nep.siˈos/

Noun

ᾰ̓νεψῐός • (ănepsĭós) m (genitive ᾰ̓νεψῐοῦ); second declension

(male) first cousin, cousin

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓νεψῐός; τοῦ ᾰ̓νεψῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓νεψῐός ho ănepsĭós	τὼ ᾰ̓νεψῐώ tṑ ănepsĭṓ	οἱ ᾰ̓νεψῐοί hoi ănepsĭoí
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓νεψῐοῦ toû ănepsĭoû	τοῖν ᾰ̓νεψῐοῖν toîn ănepsĭoîn	τῶν ᾰ̓νεψῐῶν tôn ănepsĭôn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓νεψῐῷ tōî ănepsĭōî	τοῖν ᾰ̓νεψῐοῖν toîn ănepsĭoîn	τοῖς ᾰ̓νεψῐοῖς toîs ănepsĭoîs
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓νεψῐόν tòn ănepsĭón	τὼ ᾰ̓νεψῐώ tṑ ănepsĭṓ	τοὺς ᾰ̓νεψῐούς toùs ănepsĭoús
Vocative	ᾰ̓νεψῐέ ănepsĭé	ᾰ̓νεψῐώ ănepsĭṓ	ᾰ̓νεψῐοί ănepsĭoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

ᾰ̓νεψῐᾱ́ (ănepsĭā́)

Descendants

Greek: ανιψιός (anipsiós), ανεψιός (anepsiós), ανηψιός (anipsiós), ⇒ ανίψι (anípsi)
Pontic Greek: ανεψίος (anepsíos), ⇒ ανέψ̌ι (anépši), ανέψ̌ιν (anépšin) — Kerasounta, Oinoe, ανέψ̌’ (anépš’) — Ophitic, Santa, Trapezounta, Chaldia, ανέψι (anépsi) — Ophitic
- → Laz: ანიმსე (animse), ალიმსე (alimse) — Chanapeti, ანიფსე (anipse) — Vitse

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀνεψιός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 102

“ἀνεψιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἀνεψιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἀνεψιός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἀνεψιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
ἀνεψιός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἀνεψιός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
“ἀνεψιός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G431 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
ἀνεψιός 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
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cousin idem, page 179.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀνεψιός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 102

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