ἀλωπεκία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx, “fox”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.lɔː.pe.kí.aː/ → /a.lo.peˈci.a/ → /a.lo.peˈci.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.lɔː.pe.kí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.lo.peˈki.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.lo.peˈci.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.lo.peˈci.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.lo.peˈci.a/

Noun

ἀλωπεκίᾱ • (alōpekíā) f (genitive ἀλωπεκίᾱs); first declension

1. (veterinary medicine) mange in foxes
2. (in the plural) bald patches on the head
3. (Byzantine) hair loss
4. fox's den

Declension

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ hē ălōpekĭ́ā	τὼ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ tṑ ălōpekĭ́ā	αἱ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́αι hai ălōpekĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱς tês ălōpekĭ́ās	τοῖν ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́αιν toîn ălōpekĭ́ain	τῶν ᾰ̓λωπεκῐῶν tôn ălōpekĭôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾳ têi ălōpekĭ́āi	τοῖν ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́αιν toîn ălōpekĭ́ain	ταῖς ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́αις taîs ălōpekĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱν tḕn ălōpekĭ́ān	τὼ ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ tṑ ălōpekĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ălōpekĭ́ās
Vocative	ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ ălōpekĭ́ā	ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́ᾱ ălōpekĭ́ā	ᾰ̓λωπεκῐ́αι ălōpekĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αλωπεκία (alopekía)
• → Latin: alōpecia
  • → English: alopecia
  • → French: alopécie (learned)
  • Old French: allopicie
  • → Indonesian: alopesia
  • → Italian: alopecia (learned)
  • → Polish: alopecja
  • → Portuguese: alopecia, alopécia (learned)
  • → Romanian: alopecie (learned)
  • → Spanish: alopecia (learned)

Further reading

• ἀλωπεκία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀλωπεκία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• ἀλωπεκία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἀλωπεκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀλωπεκία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften