ὠκύπτερος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

By surface analysis, ὠκύς (ōkús, “swift”) +‎ πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) +‎ -ος (-os). Beekes compares the term to Latin accipiter (“hawk”) and suggests a possible pre-form Proto-Indo-European *HHḱu-petro- (“fast flying”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔː.kýp.te.ros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈkyp.te.ros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈcyp.te.ros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈcyp.te.ros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈcip.te.ros/

Adjective

ὠκῠ́πτερος • (ōkŭ́pteros) m or f (neuter ὠκῠ́πτερον); second declension

swift-winged

Declension

Second declension of ὠκῠ́πτερος; ὠκῠ́πτερον (Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ὠκῠ́πτερος ōkŭ́pteros	ὠκῠ́πτερον ōkŭ́pteron	ὠκῠπτέρω ōkŭptérō	ὠκῠπτέρω ōkŭptérō	ὠκῠ́πτεροι ōkŭ́pteroi	ὠκῠ́πτερᾰ ōkŭ́pteră
Genitive	ὠκῠπτέρου ōkŭptérou	ὠκῠπτέρου ōkŭptérou	ὠκῠπτέροιν ōkŭptéroin	ὠκῠπτέροιν ōkŭptéroin	ὠκῠπτέρων ōkŭptérōn	ὠκῠπτέρων ōkŭptérōn
Dative	ὠκῠπτέρῳ ōkŭptérōi	ὠκῠπτέρῳ ōkŭptérōi	ὠκῠπτέροιν ōkŭptéroin	ὠκῠπτέροιν ōkŭptéroin	ὠκῠπτέροις ōkŭptérois	ὠκῠπτέροις ōkŭptérois
Accusative	ὠκῠ́πτερον ōkŭ́pteron	ὠκῠ́πτερον ōkŭ́pteron	ὠκῠπτέρω ōkŭptérō	ὠκῠπτέρω ōkŭptérō	ὠκῠπτέρους ōkŭptérous	ὠκῠ́πτερᾰ ōkŭ́pteră
Vocative	ὠκῠ́πτερε ōkŭ́ptere	ὠκῠ́πτερον ōkŭ́pteron	ὠκῠπτέρω ōkŭptérō	ὠκῠπτέρω ōkŭptérō	ὠκῠ́πτεροι ōkŭ́pteroi	ὠκῠ́πτερᾰ ōkŭ́pteră
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	ὠκῠπτέρως ōkŭptérōs		ὠκῠπτερώτερος ōkŭpterṓteros		ὠκῠπτερώτᾰτος ōkŭpterṓtătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ὠκύπτερα (ōkúptera)

References

“ὠκύπτερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὠκύπτερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ὠκύπτερος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὠκύπτερος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ὠκύπτερος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
ὠκύπτερος 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, pages 1677-1678
ὠκύπτερος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011