ἴωψ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ϝίωψ (wíōps) — Boeotian

Etymology

According to Beekes, undoubtedly a local word for small useless fish, thus from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /í.ɔːps/ → /ˈi.ops/ → /ˈi.ops/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /í.ɔːps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ops/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ops/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ops/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ops/

Noun

ἴωψ • (íōps) m (genitive ἴωπος); third declension

1. small kind of fish

Declension

Third declension of ὁ ἴωψ; τοῦ ἴωπος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἴωψ ho íōps	τὼ ἴωπε tṑ íōpe	οἱ ἴωπες hoi íōpes
Genitive	τοῦ ἴωπος toû íōpos	τοῖν ἰώποιν toîn iṓpoin	τῶν ἰώπων tôn iṓpōn
Dative	τῷ ἴωπῐ tôi íōpi	τοῖν ἰώποιν toîn iṓpoin	τοῖς ἴωψῐ / ἴωψῐν toîs íōpsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ἴωπᾰ tòn íōpa	τὼ ἴωπε tṑ íōpe	τοὺς ἴωπᾰς toùs íōpas
Vocative	ἴωψ íōps	ἴωπε íōpe	ἴωπες íōpes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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