Τριπτόλεμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τρι- (tri-, “three”) +‎ πτόλεμος (ptólemos, “war”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /trip.tó.le.mos/ → /tripˈto.le.mos/ → /tripˈto.le.mos/

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

Proper noun

Τρῐπτόλεμος • (Triptólemos) m (genitive Τρῐπτολέμου); second declension

1. Triptolemus

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Τρῐπτόλεμος; τοῦ Τρῐπτολέμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Τρῐπτόλεμος ho Triptólemos
Genitive	τοῦ Τρῐπτολέμου toû Triptolémou
Dative	τῷ Τρῐπτολέμῳ tôi Triptolémōi
Accusative	τὸν Τρῐπτόλεμον tòn Triptólemon
Vocative	Τρῐπτόλεμε Triptóleme
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Τριπτόλεμος (Triptólemos)
• Latin: Triptolemus

Further reading

• “Τριπτόλεμος”, 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, page 1,028
• Triptolemus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia