ἐμπίς
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editPopular derivation from ἐμπίνω (empínō, “to drink (blood)”). Pokorny connects Proto-West Germanic *imbī (“bee”), deriving both from Proto-Indo-European *h₁empís (“gnat, biting insect”), though Kroonen rejects this comparison and Mallory and Adams call it "not universally accepted."
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /em.pís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /emˈpis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /emˈpis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /emˈpis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /emˈbis/
Noun
editἐμπῐ́ς • (empís) f (genitive ἐμπῐ́δος); third declension
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐμπῐ́ς hē empís |
τὼ ἐμπῐ́δε tṑ empíde |
αἱ ἐμπῐ́δες hai empídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐμπῐ́δος tês empídos |
τοῖν ἐμπῐ́δοιν toîn empídoin |
τῶν ἐμπῐ́δων tôn empídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐμπῐ́δῐ têi empídi |
τοῖν ἐμπῐ́δοιν toîn empídoin |
ταῖς ἐμπῐ́σῐ / ἐμπῐ́σῐν taîs empísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐμπῐ́δᾰ tḕn empída |
τὼ ἐμπῐ́δε tṑ empíde |
τᾱ̀ς ἐμπῐ́δᾰς tā̀s empídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐμπῐ́ς empís |
ἐμπῐ́δε empíde |
ἐμπῐ́δες empídes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- → Translingual: Empis
References
edit- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “311”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 311
- Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 312
Further reading
edit- “ἐμπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐμπίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐμπίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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, page 418
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-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
- grc:Insects