Ἀσωπός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps a combination of the same root as ἄσις (ásis, “slime, mud”) and Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”). Compare Ancient Greek Ἰνωπός (Inōpós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aː.sɔː.pós/ → /a.soˈpos/ → /a.soˈpos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /aː.sɔː.pós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.soˈpos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.soˈpos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.soˈpos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.soˈpos/

Proper noun

Ᾱ̓σωπός • (Āsōpós) m (genitive Ᾱ̓σωποῦ); second declension

1. Asopus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ᾱ̓σωπός; τοῦ Ᾱ̓σωποῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ᾱ̓σωπός ho Āsōpós
Genitive	τοῦ Ᾱ̓σωποῦ toû Āsōpoû
Dative	τῷ Ᾱ̓σωπῷ tôi Āsōpôi
Accusative	τὸν Ᾱ̓σωπόν tòn Āsōpón
Vocative	Ᾱ̓σωπέ Āsōpé
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἀσωπίς (Asōpís)
• Ἀσώπιος (Asṓpios)

Descendants

• Greek: Ασωπός (Asopós)
• → Latin: Āsōpus

Further reading

• “Ἀσωπός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Ἀσωπός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “Ἀσωπός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003