ἶπος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. One could compare ἰψών (ipsṓn, “prison”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /îː.pos/ → /ˈi.pos/ → /ˈi.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /îː.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pos/

Noun

ἶπος • (îpos) f (genitive ἴ̄που); second declension

1. piece of wood in a mousetrap, that falls and catches the rodent
2. press of a fuller or for medical purposes

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ ἶπος; τῆς ῑ̓́που (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἶπος hē îpos	τὼ ῑ̓́πω tṑ ī́pō	αἱ ἶποι hai îpoi
Genitive	τῆς ῑ̓́που tês ī́pou	τοῖν ῑ̓́ποιν toîn ī́poin	τῶν ῑ̓́πων tôn ī́pōn
Dative	τῇ ῑ̓́πῳ têi ī́pōi	τοῖν ῑ̓́ποιν toîn ī́poin	ταῖς ῑ̓́ποις taîs ī́pois
Accusative	τὴν ἶπον tḕn îpon	τὼ ῑ̓́πω tṑ ī́pō	τᾱ̀ς ῑ̓́πους tā̀s ī́pous
Vocative	ἶπε îpe	ῑ̓́πω ī́pō	ἶποι îpoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἰπόω (ipóō)
• ἴπωσις (ípōsis)
• ἰπωτήριον (ipōtḗrion)
• ἰπωτρίς (ipōtrís)

 

Further reading

• “ἶπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἶπος 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