ἐμφατικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἔμφασις (émphasis) +‎ -τικός (-tikós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /em.pʰa.ti.kós/ → /em.ɸa.tiˈkos/ → /em.fa.tiˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /em.pʰa.ti.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /em.pʰa.tiˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /em.ɸa.tiˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /em.fa.tiˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /em.fa.tiˈkos/

Adjective

ἐμφᾰτῐκός • (emphatikós) m (feminine ἐμφᾰτῐκή, neuter ἐμφᾰτῐκόν); first/second declension

1. forcible, expressive

Declension

First and second declension of ἐμφᾰτῐκός; ἐμφᾰτῐκή; ἐμφᾰτῐκόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἐμφᾰτῐκός emphatikós	ἐμφᾰτῐκή emphatikḗ	ἐμφᾰτῐκόν emphatikón		ἐμφᾰτῐκώ emphatikṓ	ἐμφᾰτῐκᾱ́ emphatikā́	ἐμφᾰτῐκώ emphatikṓ		ἐμφᾰτῐκοί emphatikoí	ἐμφᾰτῐκαί emphatikaí	ἐμφᾰτῐκᾰ́ emphatiká
Genitive		ἐμφᾰτῐκοῦ emphatikoû	ἐμφᾰτῐκῆς emphatikês	ἐμφᾰτῐκοῦ emphatikoû		ἐμφᾰτῐκοῖν emphatikoîn	ἐμφᾰτῐκαῖν emphatikaîn	ἐμφᾰτῐκοῖν emphatikoîn		ἐμφᾰτῐκῶν emphatikôn	ἐμφᾰτῐκῶν emphatikôn	ἐμφᾰτῐκῶν emphatikôn
Dative		ἐμφᾰτῐκῷ emphatikôi	ἐμφᾰτῐκῇ emphatikêi	ἐμφᾰτῐκῷ emphatikôi		ἐμφᾰτῐκοῖν emphatikoîn	ἐμφᾰτῐκαῖν emphatikaîn	ἐμφᾰτῐκοῖν emphatikoîn		ἐμφᾰτῐκοῖς emphatikoîs	ἐμφᾰτῐκαῖς emphatikaîs	ἐμφᾰτῐκοῖς emphatikoîs
Accusative		ἐμφᾰτῐκόν emphatikón	ἐμφᾰτῐκήν emphatikḗn	ἐμφᾰτῐκόν emphatikón		ἐμφᾰτῐκώ emphatikṓ	ἐμφᾰτῐκᾱ́ emphatikā́	ἐμφᾰτῐκώ emphatikṓ		ἐμφᾰτῐκούς emphatikoús	ἐμφᾰτῐκᾱ́ς emphatikā́s	ἐμφᾰτῐκᾰ́ emphatiká
Vocative		ἐμφᾰτῐκέ emphatiké	ἐμφᾰτῐκή emphatikḗ	ἐμφᾰτῐκόν emphatikón		ἐμφᾰτῐκώ emphatikṓ	ἐμφᾰτῐκᾱ́ emphatikā́	ἐμφᾰτῐκώ emphatikṓ		ἐμφᾰτῐκοί emphatikoí	ἐμφᾰτῐκαί emphatikaí	ἐμφᾰτῐκᾰ́ emphatiká
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ἐμφᾰτῐκῶς emphatikôs				ἐμφᾰτῐκώτερος emphatikṓteros				ἐμφᾰτῐκώτᾰτος emphatikṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: emfàtic
• → Danish: emfatisk
• → Dutch: emfatisch
• → English: emphatic
• → Finnish: emfaattinen
• → French: emphatique
• → Galician: enfático
• → German: emphatisch
• → Italian: enfatico
• → Norwegian Bokmål: emfatisk
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: emfatisk
• → Portuguese: enfático
• → Romanian: emfatic
• → Russian: эмфати́ческий (emfatíčeskij)
• → Spanish: enfático
• → Swedish: emfatisk

Further reading

• ἐμφατικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐμφατικός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἐμφατικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐμφατικός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011