ἀστραπή

See also: αστραπή

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀστεροπή (asteropḗ)

Etymology

ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) +‎ ὀπή (opḗ, “sight, hole”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.tra.pɛ̌ː/ → /as.traˈpi/ → /as.traˈpi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.tra.pɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /as.traˈpe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /as.traˈpi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /as.traˈpi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /as.traˈpi/

Noun

ἀστρᾰπή • (astrapḗ) f (genitive ἀστρᾰπῆς); first declension

1. lightning

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀστραπή; τῆς ἀστραπῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀστραπή hē astrapḗ	τὼ ἀστραπᾱ́ tṑ astrapā́	αἱ ἀστραπαί hai astrapaí
Genitive	τῆς ἀστραπῆς tês astrapês	τοῖν ἀστραπαῖν toîn astrapaîn	τῶν ἀστραπῶν tôn astrapôn
Dative	τῇ ἀστραπῇ têi astrapêi	τοῖν ἀστραπαῖν toîn astrapaîn	ταῖς ἀστραπαῖς taîs astrapaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἀστραπήν tḕn astrapḗn	τὼ ἀστραπᾱ́ tṑ astrapā́	τᾱ̀ς ἀστραπᾱ́ς tā̀s astrapā́s
Vocative	ἀστραπή astrapḗ	ἀστραπᾱ́ astrapā́	ἀστραπαί astrapaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αστραπή (astrapí)

Further reading

• “ἀστραπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀστραπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀστραπή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀστραπή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G796 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἀστραπή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • flash idem, page 326.
  • glance idem, page 361.
  • gleam idem, page 361.
  • lightning idem, page 491.
  • twinkle idem, page 903.