Ἀρεοπαγίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ἄρειος πάγος (Áreios págos, “Areopagus”) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, masculine suffix for a member of a group).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.re.o.pa.ɡǐː.tɛːs/ → /a.re.o.paˈʝi.tis/ → /a.re.o.paˈʝi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.re.o.pa.ɡǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.re.o.paˈɡi.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.re.o.paˈʝi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.re.o.paˈʝi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.re.o.paˈʝi.tis/

Noun

Ἀρεοπᾰγῑ́της • (Areopagī́tēs) m (genitive Ἀρεοπᾰγίτου); first declension

1. Areopagite

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Ἀρεοπαγῑ́της; τοῦ Ἀρεοπαγῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Ἀρεοπαγῑ́της ho Areopagī́tēs	τὼ Ἀρεοπαγῑ́τᾱ tṑ Areopagī́tā	οἱ Ἀρεοπαγῖται hoi Areopagîtai
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀρεοπαγῑ́του toû Areopagī́tou	τοῖν Ἀρεοπαγῑ́ταιν toîn Areopagī́tain	τῶν Ἀρεοπαγῑτῶν tôn Areopagītôn
Dative	τῷ Ἀρεοπαγῑ́τῃ tôi Areopagī́tēi	τοῖν Ἀρεοπαγῑ́ταιν toîn Areopagī́tain	τοῖς Ἀρεοπαγῑ́ταις toîs Areopagī́tais
Accusative	τὸν Ἀρεοπαγῑ́την tòn Areopagī́tēn	τὼ Ἀρεοπαγῑ́τᾱ tṑ Areopagī́tā	τοὺς Ἀρεοπαγῑ́τᾱς toùs Areopagī́tās
Vocative	Ἀρεοπαγῖτᾰ Areopagîta	Ἀρεοπαγῑ́τᾱ Areopagī́tā	Ἀρεοπαγῖται Areopagîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• > Greek: αρεοπαγίτης (areopagítis) (inherited)

Further reading

• “Ἀρεοπαγίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἀρεοπαγίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ἀρεοπαγίτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G698 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible