τρίπτυχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τρι- (tri-) +‎ πτυχή (ptukhḗ) +‎ -ος (-os)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tríp.ty.kʰos/ → /ˈtrip.ty.xos/ → /ˈtrip.ti.xos/

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

Adjective

τρίπτῠχος • (tríptukhos) m or f (neuter τρίπτῠχον); second declension

1. threefold

Declension

Second declension of τρῐ́πτῠχος; τρῐ́πτῠχον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		τρῐ́πτῠχος tríptukhos	τρῐ́πτῠχον tríptukhon		τρῐπτῠ́χω triptúkhō	τρῐπτῠ́χω triptúkhō		τρῐ́πτῠχοι tríptukhoi	τρῐ́πτῠχᾰ tríptukha
Genitive		τρῐπτῠ́χου triptúkhou	τρῐπτῠ́χου triptúkhou		τρῐπτῠ́χοιν triptúkhoin	τρῐπτῠ́χοιν triptúkhoin		τρῐπτῠ́χων triptúkhōn	τρῐπτῠ́χων triptúkhōn
Dative		τρῐπτῠ́χῳ triptúkhōi	τρῐπτῠ́χῳ triptúkhōi		τρῐπτῠ́χοιν triptúkhoin	τρῐπτῠ́χοιν triptúkhoin		τρῐπτῠ́χοις triptúkhois	τρῐπτῠ́χοις triptúkhois
Accusative		τρῐ́πτῠχον tríptukhon	τρῐ́πτῠχον tríptukhon		τρῐπτῠ́χω triptúkhō	τρῐπτῠ́χω triptúkhō		τρῐπτῠ́χους triptúkhous	τρῐ́πτῠχᾰ tríptukha
Vocative		τρῐ́πτῠχε tríptukhe	τρῐ́πτῠχον tríptukhon		τρῐπτῠ́χω triptúkhō	τρῐπτῠ́χω triptúkhō		τρῐ́πτῠχοι tríptukhoi	τρῐ́πτῠχᾰ tríptukha
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 τρίπτυχον (tríptukhon) or the neuter plural τρίπτυχα (tríptukha)

Descendants

• → Belarusian: тры́пціх (trýpcix)
• → Bulgarian: триптих (triptih)
• → Czech: triptych
• → Danish: triptykon
• → Dutch: triptiek
• → English: triptych
• → Esperanto: triptiko
• → Estonian: triptühhon
• → Finnish: triptyykki
• → Georgian: ტრიპტიქი (ṭriṗṭiki)
• → German: Triptychon
• Greek: τρίπτυχο (tríptycho)
• → Hungarian: triptichon
• → Irish: triptic
• → Japanese: トリプティク (toriputiku)
• → Latin: triptycha
  • Catalan: tríptic
  • French: triptyque
  • Italian: trittico
  • Portuguese: tríptico
  • Romanian: triptic
  • Spanish: tríptico
• → Latvian: triptihs
• → Lithuanian: triptikas
• → Macedonian: триптих (triptih)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: triptyk, triptykon
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: triptykon
• → Polish: tryptyk
• → Russian: три́птих (tríptix)
• → Serbo-Croatian: trìptih
• → Slovene: triptih
• → Swedish: triptyk
• → Ukrainian: три́птих (trýptyx)

Further reading

• “τρίπτυχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τρίπτυχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τρίπτυχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τρίπτυχος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “τρίπτυχος”, 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.
  • triple idem, page 895.