ἀνεψιός

See also: ανεψιός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *népōts (“male descendant”). Some have suggested that it reflects Proto-Indo-European *h₂népōts, due to the initial ἀ-. Alternatively, it results from the prefixation of *sm̥- (“one; together”) in Proto-Indo-European,^[1] but this is problematic, as that would yield *ἁνεψιός (*hanepsiós).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.nep.si.ós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.nep.siˈos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.nep.siˈos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.nep.siˈos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.nep.siˈos/

Noun

ᾰ̓νεψῐός • (anepsiós) m (genitive ᾰ̓νεψῐοῦ); second declension

(male) first cousin, cousin

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓νεψῐός; τοῦ ᾰ̓νεψῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓νεψῐός ho anepsiós	τὼ ᾰ̓νεψῐώ tṑ anepsiṓ	οἱ ᾰ̓νεψῐοί hoi anepsioí
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓νεψῐοῦ toû anepsioû	τοῖν ᾰ̓νεψῐοῖν toîn anepsioîn	τῶν ᾰ̓νεψῐῶν tôn anepsiôn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓νεψῐῷ tôi anepsiôi	τοῖν ᾰ̓νεψῐοῖν toîn anepsioîn	τοῖς ᾰ̓νεψῐοῖς toîs anepsioîs
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓νεψῐόν tòn anepsión	τὼ ᾰ̓νεψῐώ tṑ anepsiṓ	τοὺς ᾰ̓νεψῐούς toùs anepsioús
Vocative	ᾰ̓νεψῐέ anepsié	ᾰ̓νεψῐώ anepsiṓ	ᾰ̓νεψῐοί anepsioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

ᾰ̓νεψῐᾱ́ (anepsiā́)

Descendants

Greek: ανιψιός (anipsiós), ανεψιός (anepsiós), ανηψιός (anipsiós), ⇒ ανίψι (anípsi)
Pontic Greek: ανεψίος (anepsíos), ⇒ ανέψ̌ι (anépši), ανέψ̌ιν (anépšin) — Kerasounta, Oinoe; ανέψ̌' (anépš') — Ophitic, Santa, Trapezounta, Chaldia; ανέψι (anépsi) — Ophitic
- → Laz: ანიმსე (animse), ალიმსე (alimse) — Chanapeti; ანიფსე (anipse) — Vitse

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀνεψιός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 102

“ἀνεψιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἀνεψιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἀνεψιός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἀνεψιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
ἀνεψιός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἀνεψιός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“ἀνεψιός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G431 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
ἀνεψιός 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
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cousin idem, page 179.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀνεψιός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 102

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