ἰσόρροπος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + ῥέπω (rhépō, “to incline”) + -ος (-os, adjective suffix)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /i.sór̥.r̥o.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈsor.ro.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈsor.ro.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈsor.ro.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈso.ro.pos/
Adjective
ἰσόρροπος • (isórrhopos) m (feminine ἰσόρροπος, neuter ἰσόρροπον); first/second declension
- in equipoise, of the balance
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | ἰσόρροπος isórrhopos |
ἰσόρροπον isórrhopon |
ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō |
ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō |
ἰσόρροποι isórrhopoi |
ἰσόρροπᾰ isórrhopă | ||||||||
| Genitive | ἰσορρόπου isorrhópou |
ἰσορρόπου isorrhópou |
ἰσορρόποιν isorrhópoin |
ἰσορρόποιν isorrhópoin |
ἰσορρόπων isorrhópōn |
ἰσορρόπων isorrhópōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ἰσορρόπῳ isorrhópōi |
ἰσορρόπῳ isorrhópōi |
ἰσορρόποιν isorrhópoin |
ἰσορρόποιν isorrhópoin |
ἰσορρόποις isorrhópois |
ἰσορρόποις isorrhópois | ||||||||
| Accusative | ἰσόρροπον isórrhopon |
ἰσόρροπον isórrhopon |
ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō |
ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō |
ἰσορρόπους isorrhópous |
ἰσόρροπᾰ isórrhopă | ||||||||
| Vocative | ἰσόρροπε isórrhope |
ἰσόρροπον isórrhopon |
ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō |
ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō |
ἰσόρροποι isórrhopoi |
ἰσόρροπᾰ isórrhopă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ἰσορρόπως isorrhópōs |
ἰσορροπώτερος isorrhopṓteros |
ἰσορροπώτᾰτος isorrhopṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἰσόρροπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰσόρροπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἰσόρροπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἰσόρροπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἰσόρροπος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “ἰσόρροπος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- balanced idem, page 60.
- close idem, page 138.
- commensurate idem, page 147.
- drawn idem, page 251.
- equal idem, page 280.
- equipoised idem, page 280.
- even idem, page 284.
- match idem, page 517.
- near idem, page 553.
- undecided idem, page 912.
- 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