ἐμπίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Popular derivation from ἐμπίνω (empínō, “to drink (blood)”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /em.pís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɛmˈpis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /emˈpis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /emˈpis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /emˈbis/
Noun
ἐμπῐ́ς • (empís) f (genitive ἐμπῐ́δος); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐμπῐ́ς hē empís |
τὼ ἐμπῐ́δε tṑ empíde |
αἱ ἐμπῐ́δες hai empídes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐμπῐ́δος tês empídos |
τοῖν ἐμπῐ́δοιν toîn empídoin |
τῶν ἐμπῐ́δων tôn empídōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐμπῐ́δῐ têi empídi |
τοῖν ἐμπῐ́δοιν toîn empídoin |
ταῖς ἐμπῐ́σῐ / ἐμπῐ́σῐν taîs empísi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐμπῐ́δᾰ tḕn empída |
τὼ ἐμπῐ́δε tṑ empíde |
τᾱ̀ς ἐμπῐ́δᾰς tā̀s empídas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐμπῐ́ς empís |
ἐμπῐ́δε empíde |
ἐμπῐ́δες empídes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Translingual: Empis
Further reading
- ἐμπίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐμπίς 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
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