ἐπινυκτίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐπῐ- (epi-, “on, upon”) +‎ νύξ (núx, “night”) +‎ -ίς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pi.nyk.tís/ → /e.pi.nykˈtis/ → /e.pi.nikˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pi.nyk.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.pi.nykˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.nykˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.nykˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.pi.nikˈtis/

Noun

ἐπῐνυκτῐ́ς • (epinuktís) f (genitive ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δος); third declension

1. (pathology) pustule which is most painful by night

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἐπῐνυκτῐ́ς; τῆς ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπῐνυκτῐ́ς hē epinuktís	τὼ ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δε tṑ epinuktíde	αἱ ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δες hai epinuktídes
Genitive	τῆς ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δος tês epinuktídos	τοῖν ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δοιν toîn epinuktídoin	τῶν ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δων tôn epinuktídōn
Dative	τῇ ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δῐ têi epinuktídi	τοῖν ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δοιν toîn epinuktídoin	ταῖς ἐπῐνυκτῐ́σῐ / ἐπῐνυκτῐ́σῐν taîs epinuktísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δᾰ tḕn epinuktída	τὼ ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δε tṑ epinuktíde	τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s epinuktídas
Vocative	ἐπῐνυκτῐ́ς epinuktís	ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δε epinuktíde	ἐπῐνυκτῐ́δες epinuktídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Latin: epinyctis

References

• “ἐπινυκτίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐπινυκτίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette