ἰσόρροπος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) +‎ ῥέπω (rhépō, “to incline”) +‎ -ος (-os, adjective suffix)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.sór̥.r̥o.pos/ → /iˈsor.ro.pos/ → /iˈso.ro.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.sór̥.r̥o.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈsor.ro.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈsor.ro.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈsor.ro.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈso.ro.pos/

Adjective

ἰσόρροπος • (isórrhopos) m (feminine ἰσόρροπος, neuter ἰσόρροπον); first/second declension

1. in equipoise, of the balance

Declension

Second declension of ἰσόρροπος; ἰσόρροπον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἰσόρροπος isórrhopos	ἰσόρροπον isórrhopon		ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō	ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō		ἰσόρροποι isórrhopoi	ἰσόρροπᾰ isórrhopa
Genitive		ἰσορρόπου isorrhópou	ἰσορρόπου isorrhópou		ἰσορρόποιν isorrhópoin	ἰσορρόποιν isorrhópoin		ἰσορρόπων isorrhópōn	ἰσορρόπων isorrhópōn
Dative		ἰσορρόπῳ isorrhópōi	ἰσορρόπῳ isorrhópōi		ἰσορρόποιν isorrhópoin	ἰσορρόποιν isorrhópoin		ἰσορρόποις isorrhópois	ἰσορρόποις isorrhópois
Accusative		ἰσόρροπον isórrhopon	ἰσόρροπον isórrhopon		ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō	ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō		ἰσορρόπους isorrhópous	ἰσόρροπᾰ isórrhopa
Vocative		ἰσόρροπε isórrhope	ἰσόρροπον isórrhopon		ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō	ἰσορρόπω isorrhópō		ἰσόρροποι isórrhopoi	ἰσόρροπᾰ isórrhopa
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		ἰσορρόπως isorrhópōs			ἰσορροπώτερος isorrhopṓteros			ἰσορροπώτᾰτος isorrhopṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἰσόρροπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰσόρροπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἰσόρροπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἰσόρροπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἰσόρροπος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἰσόρροπος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • balanced idem, page 60.
  • close idem, page 138.
  • commensurate idem, page 147.
  • drawn idem, page 251.
  • equal idem, page 280.
  • equipoised idem, page 280.
  • even idem, page 284.
  • match idem, page 517.
  • near idem, page 553.
  • undecided idem, page 912.
• 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