ἴψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably related to ἴξ (íx, “kind of worm”) as a Pre-Greek element. Rhymes with other Pre-Greek nouns, such as θρῑ́ψ (thrī́ps, “woodworm”) and κνῑ́ψ (knī́ps, kind of insect found under the bark of trees).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ǐːps/ → /ˈips/ → /ˈips/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ǐːps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈips/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈips/
• (10^th CE Medieval) IPA^(key): /ˈips/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈips/

Noun

ῑ̓́ψ • (ī́ps) m (genitive ῑ̓πός); third declension

1. worm which eats wood and horn

Declension

Third declension of ὁ ῑ̓́ψ; τοῦ ῑ̓πός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῑ̓́ψ ho ī́ps	τὼ ἶπε tṑ îpe	οἱ ἶπες hoi îpes
Genitive	τοῦ ῑ̓πός toû īpós	τοῖν ῑ̓ποῖν toîn īpoîn	τῶν ῑ̓πῶν tôn īpôn
Dative	τῷ ῑ̓πῐ́ tōî īpĭ́	τοῖν ῑ̓ποῖν toîn īpoîn	τοῖς ῑ̓ψῐ́ / ῑ̓ψῐ́ν toîs īpsĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὸν ἶπᾰ tòn îpă	τὼ ἶπε tṑ îpe	τοὺς ἶπᾰς toùs îpăs
Vocative	ῑ̓́ψ ī́ps	ἶπε îpe	ἶπες îpes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Ips

Further reading

• “ἴψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἴψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “ἴψ” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἴψ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN