λιπερνής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Given the existence of λιφερνοῦντας (liphernoûntas, “poor, needy”), the word is probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /li.per.nɛ̌ːs/ → /li.perˈnis/ → /li.perˈnis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /li.per.nɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /li.perˈne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /li.perˈnis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /li.perˈnis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /li.perˈnis/

Adjective

λῐπερνής • (lipernḗs) m or f (neuter λῐπερνῆτος); third declension

1. poor, forlorn, outcast

Derived terms

• λῐπερνέω (lipernéō)
• λῐπερνητής (lipernētḗs)
• λῐπερνῆτῐς (lipernêtis)

 

Further reading

• “λιπερνής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λιπερνής 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