Μεσσάπιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Pokorny, the Messapic name means "amid waters," from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos + *h₂ep-, the latter of which gave their region Apulia.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mes.sá.pi.os/ → /mesˈsa.pi.os/ → /meˈsa.pi.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mes.sá.pi.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mesˈsa.pi.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mesˈsa.pi.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mesˈsa.pi.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /meˈsa.pi.os/

Noun

Μεσσάπῐος • (Messápios) m (genitive Μεσσαπίου); second declension

1. one of the Messapii; a Messapian

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Μεσσάπιος; τοῦ Μεσσαπίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Μεσσάπιος ho Messápios	τὼ Μεσσαπίω tṑ Messapíō	οἱ Μεσσάπιοι hoi Messápioi
Genitive	τοῦ Μεσσαπίου toû Messapíou	τοῖν Μεσσαπίοιν toîn Messapíoin	τῶν Μεσσαπίων tôn Messapíōn
Dative	τῷ Μεσσαπίῳ tôi Messapíōi	τοῖν Μεσσαπίοιν toîn Messapíoin	τοῖς Μεσσαπίοις toîs Messapíois
Accusative	τὸν Μεσσάπιον tòn Messápion	τὼ Μεσσαπίω tṑ Messapíō	τοὺς Μεσσαπίους toùs Messapíous
Vocative	Μεσσάπιε Messápie	Μεσσαπίω Messapíō	Μεσσάπιοι Messápioi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Μεσσάπιος (Messápios)
• → Latin: Messapius

References

• de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999) Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN

Further reading

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017