ἠπίολος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Clearly related to ἠπίαλος (ēpíalos, “ague; nightmare”), thus from Pre-Greek. For the meaning, compare Lithuanian drugys (“fever; moth”) and Albanian ethe (“fever”) with ethëzë (“moth”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛː.pí.o.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e̝ˈpi.o.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈpi.o.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈpi.o.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈpi.o.los/
Noun
ἠπῐ́ολος • (ēpĭ́olos) m (genitive ἠπῐόλου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ἠπῐ́ολος ho ēpĭ́olos |
τὼ ἠπῐόλω tṑ ēpĭólō |
οἱ ἠπῐ́ολοι hoi ēpĭ́oloi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἠπῐόλου toû ēpĭólou |
τοῖν ἠπῐόλοιν toîn ēpĭóloin |
τῶν ἠπῐόλων tôn ēpĭólōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἠπῐόλῳ tōî ēpĭólōi |
τοῖν ἠπῐόλοιν toîn ēpĭóloin |
τοῖς ἠπῐόλοις toîs ēpĭólois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ἠπῐ́ολον tòn ēpĭ́olon |
τὼ ἠπῐόλω tṑ ēpĭólō |
τοὺς ἠπῐόλους toùs ēpĭólous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἠπῐ́ολε ēpĭ́ole |
ἠπῐόλω ēpĭólō |
ἠπῐ́ολοι ēpĭ́oloi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἠπίολος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἠπίολος 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