ὕδρωψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.drɔːps/ → /ˈy.ðrops/ → /ˈi.ðrops/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.drɔːps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.drops/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.ðrops/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.ðrops/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ðrops/

Noun

ὕδρωψ • (húdrōps) m (genitive ὕδρωπος); third declension

1. (pathology) edema, swelling

Declension

Third declension of ὁ ὕ̆δρωψ; τοῦ ῠ̔́δρωπος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ ὕ̆δρωψ ho húdrōps
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́δρωπος toû húdrōpos
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́δρωπῐ tôi húdrōpi
Accusative	τὸν ῠ̔́δρωπᾰ tòn húdrōpa
Vocative	ὕ̆δρωψ húdrōps
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὑδρωπία (hudrōpía)
• ὑδρωπίασις (hudrōpíasis)
• ὑδρωπιάω (hudrōpiáō)
• ὑδρωπικός (hudrōpikós)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: hydrōps
  • Late Latin: hydropisia
    • Old French: ydropisie, idropsie
      • French: hydropisie
      • → Middle English: dropesie, idropesie
        • English: dropsy, hydropsy
    • Old Spanish: ydropisia
      • Spanish: hidropesía
  • → English: hydrops

Further reading

• ὕδρωψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ὕδρωψ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ὕδρωψ”, 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.
  • dropsy idem, page 254.