ῥόπαλον
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Traditionally derived from ῥέπω (rhépō, “to decline, descend”), but perhaps not related to the verb.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ó.pa.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈro.pa.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈro.pa.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈro.pa.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈro.pa.lon/
Noun edit
ῥόπᾰλον • (rhópalon) n (genitive ῥοπᾰ́λου); second declension
Inflection edit
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ῥόπᾰλον tò rhópalon |
τὼ ῥοπᾰ́λω tṑ rhopálō |
τᾰ̀ ῥόπᾰλᾰ tà rhópala | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῥοπᾰ́λου toû rhopálou |
τοῖν ῥοπᾰ́λοιν toîn rhopáloin |
τῶν ῥοπᾰ́λων tôn rhopálōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῥοπᾰ́λῳ tôi rhopálōi |
τοῖν ῥοπᾰ́λοιν toîn rhopáloin |
τοῖς ῥοπᾰ́λοις toîs rhopálois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ῥόπᾰλον tò rhópalon |
τὼ ῥοπᾰ́λω tṑ rhopálō |
τᾰ̀ ῥόπᾰλᾰ tà rhópala | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῥόπᾰλον rhópalon |
ῥοπᾰ́λω rhopálō |
ῥόπᾰλᾰ rhópala | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- ῥοπαλίζει (rhopalízei)
- ῥοπαλικός (rhopalikós)
- ῥοπάλιον (rhopálion)
- ῥοπαλισμός (rhopalismós)
- ῥοπαλοειδής (rhopaloeidḗs)
- ῥοπαλομάχος (rhopalomákhos)
- ῥοπαλοφόρος (rhopalophóros)
- ῥοπαλώδης (rhopalṓdēs)
- ῥοπάλωσις (rhopálōsis)
- ῥοπαλωτός (rhopalōtós)
Descendants edit
- Greek: ρόπαλο (rópalo)
Further reading edit
- “ῥόπαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥόπαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥόπαλον 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, →ISBN