πυρωπός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) +‎ ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”) +‎ -ός (-ós)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py.rɔː.pós/ → /py.roˈpos/ → /pi.roˈpos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /py.rɔː.pós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /py.roˈpos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /py.roˈpos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /py.roˈpos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.roˈpos/

Adjective

πῠρωπός • (purōpós) m or f (neuter πῠρωπόν); second declension

1. fiery-eyed, fiery

Declension

Second declension of πῠρωπός; πῠρωπόν (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		πῠρωπός purōpós	πῠρωπόν purōpón		πῠρωπώ purōpṓ	πῠρωπώ purōpṓ		πῠρωποί purōpoí	πῠρωπᾰ́ purōpá
Genitive		πῠρωποῦ purōpoû	πῠρωποῦ purōpoû		πῠρωποῖν purōpoîn	πῠρωποῖν purōpoîn		πῠρωπῶν purōpôn	πῠρωπῶν purōpôn
Dative		πῠρωπῷ purōpôi	πῠρωπῷ purōpôi		πῠρωποῖν purōpoîn	πῠρωποῖν purōpoîn		πῠρωποῖς purōpoîs	πῠρωποῖς purōpoîs
Accusative		πῠρωπόν purōpón	πῠρωπόν purōpón		πῠρωπώ purōpṓ	πῠρωπώ purōpṓ		πῠρωπούς purōpoús	πῠρωπᾰ́ purōpá
Vocative		πῠρωπέ purōpé	πῠρωπόν purōpón		πῠρωπώ purōpṓ	πῠρωπώ purōpṓ		πῠρωποί purōpoí	πῠρωπᾰ́ purōpá
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		πῠρωπῶς purōpôs			πῠρωπότερος purōpóteros			πῠρωπότᾰτος purōpótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: pyrōpus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• πυρωπός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πυρωπός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “πυρωπός”, 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.
  • fiery idem, page 318.