δίπτυχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From δι- (di-) +‎ πτυχή (ptukhḗ) +‎ -ος (-os)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /díp.ty.kʰos/ → /ˈðip.ty.xos/ → /ˈðip.ti.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /díp.ty.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdip.ty.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈðip.ty.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈðip.ty.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈðip.ti.xos/

Adjective

δίπτῠχος • (díptukhos) m or f (neuter δίπτῠχον); second declension

1. double-folded, doubled
2. twofold

Declension

Second declension of δῐ́πτῠχος; δῐ́πτῠχον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		δῐ́πτῠχος díptukhos	δῐ́πτῠχον díptukhon		δῐπτῠ́χω diptúkhō	δῐπτῠ́χω diptúkhō		δῐ́πτῠχοι díptukhoi	δῐ́πτῠχᾰ díptukha
Genitive		δῐπτῠ́χου diptúkhou	δῐπτῠ́χου diptúkhou		δῐπτῠ́χοιν diptúkhoin	δῐπτῠ́χοιν diptúkhoin		δῐπτῠ́χων diptúkhōn	δῐπτῠ́χων diptúkhōn
Dative		δῐπτῠ́χῳ diptúkhōi	δῐπτῠ́χῳ diptúkhōi		δῐπτῠ́χοιν diptúkhoin	δῐπτῠ́χοιν diptúkhoin		δῐπτῠ́χοις diptúkhois	δῐπτῠ́χοις diptúkhois
Accusative		δῐ́πτῠχον díptukhon	δῐ́πτῠχον díptukhon		δῐπτῠ́χω diptúkhō	δῐπτῠ́χω diptúkhō		δῐπτῠ́χους diptúkhous	δῐ́πτῠχᾰ díptukha
Vocative		δῐ́πτῠχε díptukhe	δῐ́πτῠχον díptukhon		δῐπτῠ́χω diptúkhō	δῐπτῠ́χω diptúkhō		δῐ́πτῠχοι díptukhoi	δῐ́πτῠχᾰ díptukha
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		δίπτῠχᾰ díptukha			—			—
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Most are nouns derived from the neuter singular δίπτυχον (díptukhon) or the neuter plural δίπτυχα (díptukha)

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: диптих (diptih)
• → Czech: diptych
• → Danish: diptykon
• → English: diptych
• → Esperanto: diptiko
• → Estonian: diptühhon
• → Finnish: diptyykki
• → Georgian: დიპტიქი (diṗṭiki)
• → German: Diptychon
• Greek: δίπτυχο (díptycho)
• → Irish: diptic
• → Japanese: ディプティク (diputiku)
• → Latin: diptycha
  • Catalan: díptic
  • French: diptyque
    • → Dutch: diptiek
  • Italian: dittico
  • Portuguese: díptico
  • Romanian: diptic
  • Spanish: díptico
• → Latvian: diptihs
• → Lithuanian: diptikas
• → Polish: dyptyk
• → Russian: ди́птих (díptix)
• → Serbo-Croatian: diptih
• → Swedish: diptyk

Further reading

• “δίπτυχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δίπτυχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δίπτυχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δίπτυχος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “δίπτυχος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “δίπτυχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • double idem, page 248.
  • two-fold idem, page 904.