ὠκύπους
Ancient Greek
Etymology
ὠκύς (ōkús, “swift, fast”) + πούς (poús, “foot”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔː.ký.puːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈky.pus/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈcy.pus/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈcy.pus/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈci.pus/
Adjective
ὠκύπους • (ōkúpous) m or f (neuter —); third declension
Declension
Third declension of ὠκῠ́πους; — (Epic)
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | ὠκῠ́πους ōkŭ́pous |
— | ὠκῠ́ποδε ōkŭ́pode |
ὠκῠ́ποδε ōkŭ́pode |
ὠκῠ́ποδες ōkŭ́podes |
ὠκῠ́ποδᾰ ōkŭ́podă | ||||||||
| Genitive | ὠκῠ́ποδος ōkŭ́podos |
ὠκῠ́ποδος ōkŭ́podos |
ὠκῠπόδοιν / ὠκῠπόδοιῐν ōkŭpódoi(ĭ)n |
ὠκῠπόδοιν / ὠκῠπόδοιῐν ōkŭpódoi(ĭ)n |
ὠκῠπόδων ōkŭpódōn |
ὠκῠπόδων ōkŭpódōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ὠκῠ́ποδῐ ōkŭ́podĭ |
ὠκῠ́ποδῐ ōkŭ́podĭ |
ὠκῠπόδοιν / ὠκῠπόδοιῐν ōkŭpódoi(ĭ)n |
ὠκῠπόδοιν / ὠκῠπόδοιῐν ōkŭpódoi(ĭ)n |
ὠκῠ́ποσῐ / ὠκῠ́ποσῐν / ὠκῠπόδεσσῐ / ὠκῠπόδεσσῐν / ὠκῠπόδεσῐ / ὠκῠπόδεσῐν ōkŭ́posĭ(n) / ōkŭpódessĭ(n) / ōkŭpódesĭ(n) |
ὠκῠ́ποσῐ / ὠκῠ́ποσῐν / ὠκῠπόδεσσῐ / ὠκῠπόδεσσῐν / ὠκῠπόδεσῐ / ὠκῠπόδεσῐν ōkŭ́posĭ(n) / ōkŭpódessĭ(n) / ōkŭpódesĭ(n) | ||||||||
| Accusative | ὠκῠ́ποδᾰ ōkŭ́podă |
— | ὠκῠ́ποδε ōkŭ́pode |
ὠκῠ́ποδε ōkŭ́pode |
ὠκῠ́ποδᾰς ōkŭ́podăs |
ὠκῠ́ποδᾰ ōkŭ́podă | ||||||||
| Vocative | ὠκῠ́πους ōkŭ́pous |
— | ὠκῠ́ποδε ōkŭ́pode |
ὠκῠ́ποδε ōkŭ́pode |
ὠκῠ́ποδες ōkŭ́podes |
ὠκῠ́ποδᾰ ōkŭ́podă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ὠκῠπόδως ōkŭpódōs |
— | — | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Ocypode
Further reading
- “ὠκύπους”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὠκύπους in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὠκύπους in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὠκύπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὠκύπους”, 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.