ὠκύπους
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὠκῠ́ς (ōkŭ́s, “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
ὠκῠ́πους • (ōkŭ́pous) m or f (neuter ὠκῠ́πουν); third declension
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | ὠκῠ́πους ōkŭ́pous |
ὠκῠ́πουν ōkŭ́poun |
ὠκῠ́ποδε ōkŭ́pode |
ὠκῠ́ποδε ōkŭ́pode |
ὠκῠ́ποδες ōkŭ́podes |
ὠκῠ́ποδᾰ ōkŭ́podă | ||||||||
| Genitive | ὠκῠ́ποδος ōkŭ́podos |
ὠκῠ́ποδος ōkŭ́podos |
ὠκῠπόδοιῐ̈ν ōkŭpódoiĭ̈n |
ὠκῠπόδοιῐ̈ν ōkŭpódoiĭ̈n |
ὠκῠπόδων ōkŭpódōn |
ὠκῠπόδων ōkŭpódōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ὠκῠ́ποδῐ ōkŭ́podĭ |
ὠκῠ́ποδῐ ōkŭ́podĭ |
ὠκῠπόδοιῐ̈ν ōkŭpódoiĭ̈n |
ὠκῠπόδοιῐ̈ν ōkŭpódoiĭ̈n |
ὠκῠ́ποσῐ ὠκῠ́ποσῐν ὠκῠπόδεσῐ ὠκῠπόδεσῐν ὠκῠπόδεσσῐ ὠκῠπόδεσσῐν ōkŭ́posĭ(n) ōkŭpódesĭ(n) ōkŭpódessĭ(n) |
ὠκῠ́ποσῐ ὠκῠ́ποσῐν ὠκῠπόδεσῐ ὠκῠπόδεσῐν ὠκῠπόδεσσῐ ὠκῠπόδεσσῐν ōkŭ́posĭ(n) ōkŭpódesĭ(n) ōkŭpódessĭ(n) | ||||||||
| Accusative | ὠκῠ́ποδᾰ ōkŭ́podă |
ὠκῠ́πουν ōkŭ́poun |
ὠκῠ́ποδε ōkŭ́pode |
ὠκῠ́ποδε ōkŭ́pode |
ὠκῠ́ποδᾰς ōkŭ́podăs |
ὠκῠ́ποδᾰ ōkŭ́podă | ||||||||
| Vocative | ὠκῠ́πους ōkŭ́pous |
ὠκῠ́πουν ōkŭ́poun |
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.