Νεοπτόλεμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From νέος (néos, “new”) +‎ πτόλεμος (ptólemos, “war”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ne.op.tó.le.mos/ → /ne.opˈto.le.mos/ → /ne.opˈto.le.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ne.op.tó.le.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ne.opˈto.le.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ne.opˈto.le.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ne.opˈto.le.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ne.opˈto.le.mos/

Proper noun

Νεοπτόλεμος • (Neoptólemos) m (genitive Νεοπτολέμου); second declension

1. a male given name: Neoptolemus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Νεοπτόλεμος; τοῦ Νεοπτολέμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Νεοπτόλεμος ho Neoptólemos
Genitive	τοῦ Νεοπτολέμου toû Neoptolémou
Dative	τῷ Νεοπτολέμῳ tôi Neoptolémōi
Accusative	τὸν Νεοπτόλεμον tòn Neoptólemon
Vocative	Νεοπτόλεμε Neoptóleme
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Νεοπτόλεμος (Neoptólemos)
• → Latin: Neoptolemus

Further reading

• “Νεοπτόλεμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Νεοπτόλεμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Νεοπτόλεμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Νεοπτόλεμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018