ἐπιδιδυμίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπι- (epi-, “on, upon”) +‎ δίδυμος (dídumos, “twin; the testicles”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pi.di.dy.mís/ → /e.pi.ði.ðyˈmis/ → /e.pi.ði.ðiˈmis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pi.di.dy.mís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.pi.di.dyˈmis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.ði.ðyˈmis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.ði.ðyˈmis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.pi.ði.ðiˈmis/

Noun

ἐπιδιδυμίς • (epididumís) f (genitive ἐπιδιδυμίδος); third declension

1. (anatomy) epididymis

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἐπιδιδυμῐ́ς; τῆς ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπιδιδυμῐ́ς hē epididumís	τὼ ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δε tṑ epididumíde	αἱ ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δες hai epididumídes
Genitive	τῆς ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δος tês epididumídos	τοῖν ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δοιν toîn epididumídoin	τῶν ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δων tôn epididumídōn
Dative	τῇ ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δῐ têi epididumídi	τοῖν ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δοιν toîn epididumídoin	ταῖς ἐπιδιδυμῐ́σῐ / ἐπιδιδυμῐ́σῐν taîs epididumísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δᾰ tḕn epididumída	τὼ ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δε tṑ epididumíde	τᾱ̀ς ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δᾰς tā̀s epididumídas
Vocative	ἐπιδιδυμῐ́ς epididumís	ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δε epididumíde	ἐπιδιδυμῐ́δες epididumídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

→ English: epididymis

References

“ἐπιδιδυμίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press