νυκτάλωψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The suffix, which is found also in ἀγχίλωψ (ankhílōps), αἱμάλωψ (haimálōps) and θῡμάλωψ (thūmálōps), is typically Pre-Greek. The connection with νύξ (núx, “night”) must be folk-etymological.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nyk.tá.lɔːps/ → /nykˈta.lops/ → /nikˈta.lops/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nyk.tá.lɔːps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /nykˈta.lops/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /nykˈta.lops/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /nykˈta.lops/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /nikˈta.lops/

Noun

νῠκτᾰ́λωψ • (nuktálōps) m or f (genitive νῠκτᾰ́λωπος); third declension

1. (medicine) day blindness, hemeralopia
2. (medicine) night blindness, nyctalopia

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ νῠκτᾰ́λωψ; τοῦ, τῆς νῠκτᾰ́λωπος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ νῠκτᾰ́λωψ ho, hē nuktálōps	τὼ νῠκτᾰ́λωπε tṑ nuktálōpe	οἱ, αἱ νῠκτᾰ́λωπες hoi, hai nuktálōpes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς νῠκτᾰ́λωπος toû, tês nuktálōpos	τοῖν νῠκτᾰλώποιν toîn nuktalṓpoin	τῶν νῠκτᾰλώπων tôn nuktalṓpōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ νῠκτᾰ́λωπῐ tôi, têi nuktálōpi	τοῖν νῠκτᾰλώποιν toîn nuktalṓpoin	τοῖς, ταῖς νῠκτᾰ́λωψῐ / νῠκτᾰ́λωψῐν toîs, taîs nuktálōpsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν νῠκτᾰ́λωπᾰ tòn, tḕn nuktálōpa	τὼ νῠκτᾰ́λωπε tṑ nuktálōpe	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς νῠκτᾰ́λωπᾰς toùs, tā̀s nuktálōpas
Vocative	νῠκτᾰ́λωψ nuktálōps	νῠκτᾰ́λωπε nuktálōpe	νῠκτᾰ́λωπες nuktálōpes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• νῠκτᾰλωπῐκός (nuktalōpikós)
• νῠκτᾰλωπῐ́ᾰσῐς (nuktalōpíasis)
• νῠκτᾰλωπῐᾰ́ω (nuktalōpiáō)

 

Further reading

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