ὕψος

See also: ύψος and ὑψόσ’

Ancient Greek

From ῠ̔́ψῐ (hŭ́psĭ, “aloft”), probably related to ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”).^[1]

ῠ̔́ψος • (hŭ́psos) n (genitive ῠ̔́ψεος or ῠ̔́ψους); third declension

Third declension of τὸ ῠ̔́ψος; τοῦ ῠ̔́ψους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῠ̔́ψος tò hŭ́psos	τὼ ῠ̔́ψει tṑ hŭ́psei	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́ψη tằ hŭ́psē
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́ψους toû hŭ́psous	τοῖν ῠ̔ψοῖν toîn hŭpsoîn	τῶν ῠ̔ψῶν tôn hŭpsôn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́ψει tōî hŭ́psei	τοῖν ῠ̔ψοῖν toîn hŭpsoîn	τοῖς ῠ̔́ψεσῐ / ῠ̔́ψεσῐν toîs hŭ́psesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῠ̔́ψος tò hŭ́psos	τὼ ῠ̔́ψει tṑ hŭ́psei	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́ψη tằ hŭ́psē
Vocative	ῠ̔́ψος hŭ́psos	ῠ̔́ψει hŭ́psei	ῠ̔́ψη hŭ́psē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ ῠ̔́ψος; τοῦ ῠ̔́ψεος / ῠ̔́ψευς (Ionic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῠ̔́ψος tò hŭ́psos	τὼ ῠ̔́ψεε / ῠ̔́ψει tṑ hŭ́psee / hŭ́psei	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́ψεᾰ tằ hŭ́pseă
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́ψεος / ῠ̔́ψευς toû hŭ́pseos / hŭ́pseus	τοῖν ῠ̔ψέοιν toîn hŭpséoin	τῶν ῠ̔ψέων tôn hŭpséōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́ψεῐ̈ / ῠ̔́ψει tōî hŭ́pseĭ̈ / hŭ́psei	τοῖν ῠ̔ψέοιν toîn hŭpséoin	τοῖσῐ / τοῖσῐν ῠ̔́ψεσῐ / ῠ̔́ψεσῐν toîsĭ(n) hŭ́psesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῠ̔́ψος tò hŭ́psos	τὼ ῠ̔́ψεε / ῠ̔́ψει tṑ hŭ́psee / hŭ́psei	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́ψεᾰ tằ hŭ́pseă
Vocative	ῠ̔́ψος hŭ́psos	ῠ̔́ψεε / ῠ̔́ψει hŭ́psee / hŭ́psei	ῠ̔́ψεᾰ hŭ́pseă
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ὕψι ( > DER > 3. ὕψος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1541

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“ὕψος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ὕψος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- elevation idem, page 265.
- height idem, page 394.
- loftiness idem, page 497.
ὕψος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011