φάψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is similar to other bird names, such as γύψ (gúps, “vulture”) and σκώψ (skṓps, “owl”). The word is clearly related to φάσσα (phássa, “pigeon”) and thus Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰáps/ → /ɸaps/ → /faps/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰáps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰaps/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸaps/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /faps/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /faps/

Noun

φᾰ́ψ • (pháps) f (genitive φᾰβός); third declension

1. wild pigeon

Declension

Third declension of ἡ φᾰ́ψ; τῆς φᾰβός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φᾰ́ψ hē pháps	τὼ φᾰ́βε tṑ phábe	αἱ φᾰ́βες hai phábes
Genitive	τῆς φᾰβός tês phabós	τοῖν φᾰβοῖν toîn phaboîn	τῶν φᾰβῶν tôn phabôn
Dative	τῇ φᾰβῐ́ têi phabí	τοῖν φᾰβοῖν toîn phaboîn	ταῖς φᾰψῐ́ / φᾰψῐ́ν taîs phapsí(n)
Accusative	τὴν φᾰ́βᾰ tḕn phába	τὼ φᾰ́βε tṑ phábe	τᾱ̀ς φᾰ́βᾰς tā̀s phábas
Vocative	φᾰ́ψ pháps	φᾰ́βε phábe	φᾰ́βες phábes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φαβοκτόνος (phaboktónos)
• φαβοτύπος (phabotúpos)

 

Descendants

• → Translingual: Phaps

Further reading

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