ἅρπη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *serp-, with cognates including Latin sarpō, Old Church Slavonic срьпъ (srĭpŭ, “sickle”), and Latvian sirpis. However, there are some difficulties with these connections. There is possibly a contamination with a Semitic borrowing, Proto-Semitic *ḥarb-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hár.pɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ar.pe/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈar.pi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈar.pi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈar.pi/
Noun
ἅρπη • (hárpē) f (genitive ἅρπης); first declension
- a bird of prey (probably shearwater)
- a kite
- a sickle
- an elephant goad
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̔́ρπη hē hárpē |
τὼ ᾰ̔́ρπᾱ tṑ hárpā |
αἱ ᾰ̔́ρπαι hai hárpai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̔́ρπης tês hárpēs |
τοῖν ᾰ̔́ρπαιν toîn hárpain |
τῶν ᾰ̔ρπῶν tôn harpôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ᾰ̔́ρπῃ têi hárpēi |
τοῖν ᾰ̔́ρπαιν toîn hárpain |
ταῖς ᾰ̔́ρπαις taîs hárpais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̔́ρπην tḕn hárpēn |
τὼ ᾰ̔́ρπᾱ tṑ hárpā |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̔́ρπᾱς tā̀s hárpās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̔́ρπη hárpē |
ᾰ̔́ρπᾱ hárpā |
ᾰ̔́ρπαι hárpai | ||||||||||
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References
- Brown, John Pairman (1995) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 231), volume I, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, pages 78–82
Further reading
- ἅρπη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἅρπη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἅρπη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἅρπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἅρπη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἅρπη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
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