χαμαιτυπεῖον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χᾰμαιτύπη (khamaitúpē, “harlot, strumpet”) +‎ -εῖον (-eîon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /xa.mɛ.tyˈpi.on/ → /xa.me.tiˈpi.on/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰa.mɛ.tyˈpi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xa.mɛ.tyˈpi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xa.me.tyˈpi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xa.me.tiˈpi.on/

Noun

χᾰμαιτῠπεῖον • (khamaitupeîon) n (genitive χᾰμαιτῠπείου); second declension (Koine)

1. brothel

   Synonyms: πορνεῖον (porneîon), κασαυρεῖον (kasaureîon)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ χᾰμαιτῠπεῖον; τοῦ χᾰμαιτῠπείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ χᾰμαιτῠπεῖον tò khamaitupeîon	τὼ χᾰμαιτῠπείω tṑ khamaitupeíō	τᾰ̀ χᾰμαιτῠπεῖᾰ tà khamaitupeîa
Genitive	τοῦ χᾰμαιτῠπείου toû khamaitupeíou	τοῖν χᾰμαιτῠπείοιν toîn khamaitupeíoin	τῶν χᾰμαιτῠπείων tôn khamaitupeíōn
Dative	τῷ χᾰμαιτῠπείῳ tôi khamaitupeíōi	τοῖν χᾰμαιτῠπείοιν toîn khamaitupeíoin	τοῖς χᾰμαιτῠπείοις toîs khamaitupeíois
Accusative	τὸ χᾰμαιτῠπεῖον tò khamaitupeîon	τὼ χᾰμαιτῠπείω tṑ khamaitupeíō	τᾰ̀ χᾰμαιτῠπεῖᾰ tà khamaitupeîa
Vocative	χᾰμαιτῠπεῖον khamaitupeîon	χᾰμαιτῠπείω khamaitupeíō	χᾰμαιτῠπεῖᾰ khamaitupeîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: χαμαιτυπείο (chamaitypeío)

Further reading

• “χαμαιτυπεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χαμαιτυπεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χαμαιτυπεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χαμαιτυπεῖον - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.