τρόπαιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τροπαῖον (tropaîon)

Etymology

From τροπαῖος (tropaîos, “of defeat”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “rout, turning of an enemy”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tró.pai̯.on/ → /ˈtro.pɛ.on/ → /ˈtro.pe.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tró.pai̯.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtro.pɛ.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtro.pɛ.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtro.pe.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtro.pe.on/

Noun

τρόπαιον • (trópaion) n (genitive τροπαίου); second declension

1. trophy, a monument to an enemy's defeat

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ τρόπαιον; τοῦ τροπαίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τρόπαιον tò trópaion	τὼ τροπαίω tṑ tropaíō	τᾰ̀ τρόπαιᾰ tà trópaia
Genitive	τοῦ τροπαίου toû tropaíou	τοῖν τροπαίοιν toîn tropaíoin	τῶν τροπαίων tôn tropaíōn
Dative	τῷ τροπαίῳ tôi tropaíōi	τοῖν τροπαίοιν toîn tropaíoin	τοῖς τροπαίοις toîs tropaíois
Accusative	τὸ τρόπαιον tò trópaion	τὼ τροπαίω tṑ tropaíō	τᾰ̀ τρόπαιᾰ tà trópaia
Vocative	τρόπαιον trópaion	τροπαίω tropaíō	τρόπαιᾰ trópaia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: tropaeum (see there for further descendants)
• → Phoenician: 𐤕𐤓𐤐𐤉 (trpy)

Further reading

• “τρόπαιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τρόπαιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τρόπαιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette