ὕπνος

See also: Ὕπνος, Ύπνος, and ύπνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *húpnos, from Proto-Indo-European *supnós (“sleep”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्वप्न (svápna) and Albanian gjumë < *źúpnos.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

ῠ̔́πνος • (hŭ́pnos) m (genitive ῠ̔́πνου); second declension

1. sleep, slumber
2. (figuratively) death

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῠ̔́πνος; τοῦ ῠ̔́πνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῠ̔́πνος ho hŭ́pnos	τὼ ῠ̔́πνω tṑ hŭ́pnō	οἱ ῠ̔́πνοι hoi hŭ́pnoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́πνου toû hŭ́pnou	τοῖν ῠ̔́πνοιν toîn hŭ́pnoin	τῶν ῠ̔́πνων tôn hŭ́pnōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́πνῳ tôi hŭ́pnōi	τοῖν ῠ̔́πνοιν toîn hŭ́pnoin	τοῖς ῠ̔́πνοις toîs hŭ́pnois
Accusative	τὸν ῠ̔́πνον tòn hŭ́pnon	τὼ ῠ̔́πνω tṑ hŭ́pnō	τοὺς ῠ̔́πνους toùs hŭ́pnous
Vocative	ῠ̔́πνε hŭ́pne	ῠ̔́πνω hŭ́pnō	ῠ̔́πνοι hŭ́pnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄγρῠπνος (ágrŭpnos)
• ἐνύπνιος (enúpnios)
• ὑπναλέος (hupnaléos)
• ὑπναπάτης (hupnapátēs)
• ὑπνάω (hupnáō)
• ὑπνηλός (hupnēlós)
• ὑπνηρός (hupnērós)
• ὑπνίδιος (hupnídios)
• ὑπνίζω (hupnízō)
• ὑπνικός (hupnikós)
• ὑπνοδότειρα (hupnodóteira)
• ὑπνοδότης (hupnodótēs)
• ὑπνομαχέω (hupnomakhéō)
• ὑπνοποιέω (hupnopoiéō)
• ὑπνοποιός (hupnopoiós)
• Ὕπνος (Húpnos)
• ὑπνοφανής (hupnophanḗs)
• ὑπνοφόβης (hupnophóbēs)
• ὑπνοφόρος (hupnophóros)
• ὑπνόω (hupnóō)
• ὑπνώδης (hupnṓdēs)
• ὑπνώδια (hupnṓdia)
• ὑπνώσσω (hupnṓssō)
• ὑπνωτικός (hupnōtikós)
• ὑπνώω (hupnṓō)

Descendants

• Greek: ύπνος (ýpnos)
• Mariupol Greek: и́пну (ípnu)
• ⇒ Translingual: Hypnea

Further reading

• “ὕπνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὕπνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὕπνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὕπνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὕπνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὕπνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5258 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.
  • repose idem, page 697.
  • rest idem, page 704.
  • sleep idem, page 783.
  • trance idem, page 887.
• ὕπνος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011