ἄπιος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the same substrate root as ᾰ̓́πῐον (ắpĭon, “pear”) and Latin pirum (“pear”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.pi.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.pi.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.pi.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.pi.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.pi.os/
Noun
ᾰ̓́πῐος • (ắpĭos) m (genitive ᾰ̓πῐ́ου); second declension
- pear tree (Pyrus communis)
- kind of spurge (Euphorbia apios)
- Synonyms: ἰσχᾰ́ς (iskhắs), χᾰμαιρᾰ́φᾰνος (khămairắphănos)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ᾰ̓́πῐος ho ắpĭos |
τὼ ᾰ̓πῐ́ω tṑ ăpĭ́ō |
οἱ ᾰ̓́πῐοι hoi ắpĭoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓πῐ́ου toû ăpĭ́ou |
τοῖν ᾰ̓πῐ́οιν toîn ăpĭ́oin |
τῶν ᾰ̓πῐ́ων tôn ăpĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓πῐ́ῳ tōî ăpĭ́ōi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓πῐ́οιν toîn ăpĭ́oin |
τοῖς ᾰ̓πῐ́οις toîs ăpĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ᾰ̓́πῐον tòn ắpĭon |
τὼ ᾰ̓πῐ́ω tṑ ăpĭ́ō |
τοὺς ᾰ̓πῐ́ους toùs ăpĭ́ous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓́πῐε ắpĭe |
ᾰ̓πῐ́ω ăpĭ́ō |
ᾰ̓́πῐοι ắpĭoi | ||||||||||
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References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἄπῐον (> VAR > ἄπιος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 116
Further reading
- “ἄπιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄπιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄπιος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἄπιος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011