αἰπόλος

Ancient Greek[edit]

From αἴξ (aíx, “goat”) + Proto-Indo-European *-kʷolos (“-herd”) (compare βουκόλος (boukólos, “cowherd”)), from *kʷel- (“to turn, cultivate”).

αἰπόλος • (aipólos) m (genitive αἰπόλου); second declension

goatherd
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.173
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.46
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 639a
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Amos 7.14

The quote from the Odyssey uses the pleonastic expression αἰπόλος αἰγῶν (aipólos aigôn, literally “goatherd of goats”).

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ αἰπόλος ho aipólos	τὼ αἰπόλω tṑ aipólō	οἱ αἰπόλοι hoi aipóloi
Genitive	τοῦ αἰπόλου toû aipólou	τοῖν αἰπόλοιν toîn aipóloin	τῶν αἰπόλων tôn aipólōn
Dative	τῷ αἰπόλῳ tôi aipólōi	τοῖν αἰπόλοιν toîn aipóloin	τοῖς αἰπόλοις toîs aipólois
Accusative	τὸν αἰπόλον tòn aipólon	τὼ αἰπόλω tṑ aipólō	τοὺς αἰπόλους toùs aipólous
Vocative	αἰπόλε aipóle	αἰπόλω aipólō	αἰπόλοι aipóloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“αἰπόλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
αἰπόλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
αἰπόλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
αἰπόλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“αἴπολος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“αἰπόλος”, 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.
- goat-herd idem, page 365.