μώλωψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes dismisses a derivation from ὤψ (ṓps, “face”) and prefers to derive it from Pre-Greek, comparing other words ending in "-ωψ", like κύνωψ (kúnōps) and κώνωψ (kṓnōps).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̌ː.lɔːps/ → /ˈmo.lops/ → /ˈmo.lops/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɔ̌ː.lɔːps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lops/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lops/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lops/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lops/

Noun

μώλωψ • (mṓlōps) m (genitive μώλωπος); third declension

1. mark of a stripe, weal, bruise

   Synonym: σμῶδῐξ (smôdix)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ μώλωψ; τοῦ μώλωπος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μώλωψ ho mṓlōps	τὼ μώλωπε tṑ mṓlōpe	οἱ μώλωπες hoi mṓlōpes
Genitive	τοῦ μώλωπος toû mṓlōpos	τοῖν μωλώποιν toîn mōlṓpoin	τῶν μωλώπων tôn mōlṓpōn
Dative	τῷ μώλωπῐ tôi mṓlōpi	τοῖν μωλώποιν toîn mōlṓpoin	τοῖς μώλωψῐ / μώλωψῐν toîs mṓlōpsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν μώλωπᾰ tòn mṓlōpa	τὼ μώλωπε tṑ mṓlōpe	τοὺς μώλωπᾰς toùs mṓlōpas
Vocative	μώλωψ mṓlōps	μώλωπε mṓlōpe	μώλωπες mṓlōpes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μωλωπῐ́ζω (mōlōpízō)
• μωλωπῐκός (mōlōpikós)

 

Further reading

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