λεπάς

See also: λέπας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally derived from λέπας (lépas, “scaur, rock”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás), as the animal clings to the rock. Alternatively, it could derive from λέπος (lépos, “rind, husk”), λεπίς (lepís, “scale, flake”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /le.pás/ → /leˈpas/ → /leˈpas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /le.pás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /leˈpas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /leˈpas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /leˈpas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /leˈpas/

Noun

λεπᾰ́ς • (lepás) f (genitive λεπᾰ́δος); third declension

1. limpet (gastropod of the family Patellidae)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ λεπᾰ́ς; τῆς λεπᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λεπᾰ́ς hē lepás	τὼ λεπᾰ́δε tṑ lepáde	αἱ λεπᾰ́δες hai lepádes
Genitive	τῆς λεπᾰ́δος tês lepádos	τοῖν λεπᾰ́δοιν toîn lepádoin	τῶν λεπᾰ́δων tôn lepádōn
Dative	τῇ λεπᾰ́δῐ têi lepádi	τοῖν λεπᾰ́δοιν toîn lepádoin	ταῖς λεπᾰ́σῐ / λεπᾰ́σῐν taîs lepási(n)
Accusative	τὴν λεπᾰ́δᾰ tḕn lepáda	τὼ λεπᾰ́δε tṑ lepáde	τᾱ̀ς λεπᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s lepádas
Vocative	λεπᾰ́ς lepás	λεπᾰ́δε lepáde	λεπᾰ́δες lepádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: lepās
  • → Italian: lepade
  • → Translingual: Lepas

Further reading

• “λεπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λεπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λεπάς 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