ὕπερος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὕπερον (húperon)

Etymology

From ὑπέρ (hupér, “over, above”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.pe.ros/ → /ˈy.pe.ros/ → /ˈi.pe.ros/

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

Noun

ὕπερος • (húperos) m (genitive ὑπέρου); second declension

1. pestle

   Synonyms: ἄκμων (ákmōn), ἀλετρίβανος (aletríbanos), δοῖδυξ (doîdux), κόπανον (kópanon), λᾰ́κτῐς (láktis), ναγεύς (nageús)

2. club, cudgel

   Synonyms: κορύνη (korúnē), ῥόπαλον (rhópalon)

3. lever for stretching dislocated joints
4. (zoology) pupa of a geometrid moth

   Synonym: πηνίον (pēníon)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὕπερος; τοῦ ὑπέρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὕπερος ho húperos	τὼ ὑπέρω tṑ hupérō	οἱ ὕπεροι hoi húperoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὑπέρου toû hupérou	τοῖν ὑπέροιν toîn hupéroin	τῶν ὑπέρων tôn hupérōn
Dative	τῷ ὑπέρῳ tôi hupérōi	τοῖν ὑπέροιν toîn hupéroin	τοῖς ὑπέροις toîs hupérois
Accusative	τὸν ὕπερον tòn húperon	τὼ ὑπέρω tṑ hupérō	τοὺς ὑπέρους toùs hupérous
Vocative	ὕπερε húpere	ὑπέρω hupérō	ὕπεροι húperoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὕπερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕπερος 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