φάψ
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editThe 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
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰáps/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰaps/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸaps/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /faps/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /faps/
Noun
editφᾰ́ψ • (pháps) f (genitive φᾰβός); third declension
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- φαβοκτόνος (phaboktónos)
- φαβοτύπος (phabotúpos)
Descendants
edit- → Translingual: Phaps
Further reading
edit- “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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 1-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
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