χαλεπότης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χαλεπός (khalepós) + -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰa.le.pó.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰa.leˈpo.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xa.leˈpo.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xa.leˈpo.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xa.leˈpo.tis/
Noun
χᾰλεπότης • (khălepótēs) f (genitive χᾰλεπότητος); third declension
- difficulty, ruggedness
- harshness, rigour, severity
- bad temper, vice (of a horse)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ χᾰλεπότης hē khălepótēs |
τὼ χᾰλεπότητε tṑ khălepótēte |
αἱ χᾰλεπότητες hai khălepótētes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς χᾰλεπότητος tês khălepótētos |
τοῖν χᾰλεποτήτοιν toîn khălepotḗtoin |
τῶν χᾰλεποτήτων tôn khălepotḗtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ χᾰλεπότητῐ tēî khălepótētĭ |
τοῖν χᾰλεποτήτοιν toîn khălepotḗtoin |
ταῖς χᾰλεπότησῐ / χᾰλεπότησῐν taîs khălepótēsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν χᾰλεπότητᾰ tḕn khălepótētă |
τὼ χᾰλεπότητε tṑ khălepótēte |
τᾱ̀ς χᾰλεπότητᾰς tā̀s khălepótētăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χᾰλεπότης khălepótēs |
χᾰλεπότητε khălepótēte |
χᾰλεπότητες khălepótētes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- χαλεπότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χαλεπότης, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “χαλεπότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χαλεπότης in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- austerity idem, page 53.
- bitterness idem, page 80.
- cruelty idem, page 187.
- difficulty idem, page 223.
- ferocity idem, page 316.
- fierceness idem, page 318.
- hardness idem, page 385.
- harshness idem, page 387.
- intractability idem, page 454.
- rigidity idem, page 715.
- rigour idem, page 715.
- roughness idem, page 722.
- ruggedness idem, page 725.
- savageness idem, page 735.
- severity idem, page 759.
- sternness idem, page 816.
- stoniness idem, page 819.
- unevenness idem, page 917.
- unkindness idem, page 923.
- viciousness idem, page 950.