ὑπόδημα

See also: υπόδημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὑποδέω (hupodéō, “to bind underneath”) +‎ -μα (-ma) (these were fastened to the feet with straps).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.pó.dɛː.ma/ → /yˈpo.ði.ma/ → /iˈpo.ði.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.pó.dɛː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yˈpo.de̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈpo.ði.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈpo.ði.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈpo.ði.ma/

Noun

ῠ̔πόδημᾰ • (hupódēma) n (genitive ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτος); third declension

1. A sandal or shoe, any kind of footwear

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ῠ̔πόδημᾰ; τοῦ ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῠ̔πόδημᾰ tò hupódēma	τὼ ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτε tṑ hupodḗmate	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτᾰ tà hupodḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτος toû hupodḗmatos	τοῖν ῠ̔ποδημᾰ́τοιν toîn hupodēmátoin	τῶν ῠ̔ποδημᾰ́των tôn hupodēmátōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτῐ tôi hupodḗmati	τοῖν ῠ̔ποδημᾰ́τοιν toîn hupodēmátoin	τοῖς ῠ̔ποδήμᾰσῐ / ῠ̔ποδήμᾰσῐν toîs hupodḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῠ̔πόδημᾰ tò hupódēma	τὼ ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτε tṑ hupodḗmate	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτᾰ tà hupodḗmata
Vocative	ῠ̔πόδημᾰ hupódēma	ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτε hupodḗmate	ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτᾰ hupodḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: υπόδημα (ypódima)

Further reading

• “ὑπόδημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑπόδημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὑπόδημα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὑπόδημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5266 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • sandal idem, page 733.
  • shoe idem, page 767.