ἠπίολος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Clearly related to ἠπίαλος (ēpíalos, “ague; nightmare”), thus from Pre-Greek. For the meaning, compare Lithuanian drugys (“fever; moth”) and Albanian ethe (“fever”) with ethëzë (“moth”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛː.pí.o.los/ → /iˈpi.o.los/ → /iˈpi.o.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.pí.o.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝ˈpi.o.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈpi.o.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈpi.o.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈpi.o.los/

Noun

ἠπῐ́ολος • (ēpíolos) m (genitive ἠπῐόλου); second declension

1. moth

   Synonyms: σής (sḗs), φάλαινᾰ (phálaina)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἠπῐ́ολος; τοῦ ἠπῐόλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἠπῐ́ολος ho ēpíolos	τὼ ἠπῐόλω tṑ ēpiólō	οἱ ἠπῐ́ολοι hoi ēpíoloi
Genitive	τοῦ ἠπῐόλου toû ēpiólou	τοῖν ἠπῐόλοιν toîn ēpióloin	τῶν ἠπῐόλων tôn ēpiólōn
Dative	τῷ ἠπῐόλῳ tôi ēpiólōi	τοῖν ἠπῐόλοιν toîn ēpióloin	τοῖς ἠπῐόλοις toîs ēpiólois
Accusative	τὸν ἠπῐ́ολον tòn ēpíolon	τὼ ἠπῐόλω tṑ ēpiólō	τοὺς ἠπῐόλους toùs ēpiólous
Vocative	ἠπῐ́ολε ēpíole	ἠπῐόλω ēpiólō	ἠπῐ́ολοι ēpíoloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἠπίολος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἠπίολος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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