ἠπειρῶτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἤπειρος (ḗpeiros, “mainland”) +‎ -ις (-is, feminine demonymic suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛː.peː.rɔ̂ː.tis/ → /i.piˈro.tis/ → /i.piˈro.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.peː.rɔ̂ː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝.piˈro.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.piˈro.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.piˈro.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.piˈro.tis/

Noun

ἠπειρῶτῐς • (ēpeirôtis) f (genitive ἠπειρώτῐδος); third declension

1. female mainland dweller, mainlander

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἠπειρῶτῐς; τῆς ἠπειρώτῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἠπειρῶτῐς hē ēpeirôtis	τὼ ἠπειρώτῐδε tṑ ēpeirṓtide	αἱ ἠπειρώτῐδες hai ēpeirṓtides
Genitive	τῆς ἠπειρώτῐδος tês ēpeirṓtidos	τοῖν ἠπειρωτῐ́δοιν toîn ēpeirōtídoin	τῶν ἠπειρωτῐ́δων tôn ēpeirōtídōn
Dative	τῇ ἠπειρώτῐδῐ têi ēpeirṓtidi	τοῖν ἠπειρωτῐ́δοιν toîn ēpeirōtídoin	ταῖς ἠπειρώτῐσῐ / ἠπειρώτῐσῐν taîs ēpeirṓtisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἠπειρώτῐδᾰ tḕn ēpeirṓtida	τὼ ἠπειρώτῐδε tṑ ēpeirṓtide	τᾱ̀ς ἠπειρώτῐδᾰς tā̀s ēpeirṓtidas
Vocative	ἠπειρῶτῐς ēpeirôtis	ἠπειρώτῐδε ēpeirṓtide	ἠπειρώτῐδες ēpeirṓtides
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.

Coordinate terms

• ἠπειρώτης m (ēpeirṓtēs)

Further reading

• ἠπειρῶτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἠπειρῶτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • asia idem, page 44.
  • eastern idem, page 260.
  • mainland idem, page 508.