ὑψηλός

See also: υψηλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὕψι (húpsi, “high”), ὕψος (húpsos, “height, summit”) +‎ -λός (-lós). Compare Proto-Celtic *ouxselos, whence Old Irish úasal, Welsh uchel and the first part of Gaulish Uxellodunum.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hyp.sɛː.lós/ → /yp.siˈlos/ → /ip.siˈlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hyp.sɛː.lós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yp.se̝ˈlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yp.siˈlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yp.siˈlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ip.siˈlos/

Adjective

ῠ̔ψηλός • (hupsēlós) m (feminine ῠ̔ψηλή, neuter ῠ̔ψηλόν); first/second declension

1. high, lofty
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 5.13.9
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.426
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.384
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.110
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.97
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 732C
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.5.4
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, A Professor of Public Speaking 6
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Eumenes 17
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 175D
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.29
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.4
   • 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Collected Works 64
2. (figuratively) high, lofty, stately, proud
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.22
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 5.1
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 3.111
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 289E
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Epistles 341E
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1230
   1. (of persons)
      • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 418
      • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 613
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 730
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 494D
      • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Peace 7
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 174
      • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 555
      • Metrodorus, Fragments 57
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Nigrinus 25
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Dion 4
   2. (of poets) sublime
      • 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 40.2
      • 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 43.3
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Commentaries on the Attic Orators: On Lysias 13
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 5
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 10.12

Inflection

First and second declension of ῠ̔ψηλός; ῠ̔ψηλή; ῠ̔ψηλόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ῠ̔ψηλός hupsēlós	ῠ̔ψηλή hupsēlḗ	ῠ̔ψηλόν hupsēlón		ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ	ῠ̔ψηλᾱ́ hupsēlā́	ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ		ῠ̔ψηλοί hupsēloí	ῠ̔ψηλαί hupsēlaí	ῠ̔ψηλᾰ́ hupsēlá
Genitive		ῠ̔ψηλοῦ hupsēloû	ῠ̔ψηλῆς hupsēlês	ῠ̔ψηλοῦ hupsēloû		ῠ̔ψηλοῖν hupsēloîn	ῠ̔ψηλαῖν hupsēlaîn	ῠ̔ψηλοῖν hupsēloîn		ῠ̔ψηλῶν hupsēlôn	ῠ̔ψηλῶν hupsēlôn	ῠ̔ψηλῶν hupsēlôn
Dative		ῠ̔ψηλῷ hupsēlôi	ῠ̔ψηλῇ hupsēlêi	ῠ̔ψηλῷ hupsēlôi		ῠ̔ψηλοῖν hupsēloîn	ῠ̔ψηλαῖν hupsēlaîn	ῠ̔ψηλοῖν hupsēloîn		ῠ̔ψηλοῖς hupsēloîs	ῠ̔ψηλαῖς hupsēlaîs	ῠ̔ψηλοῖς hupsēloîs
Accusative		ῠ̔ψηλόν hupsēlón	ῠ̔ψηλήν hupsēlḗn	ῠ̔ψηλόν hupsēlón		ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ	ῠ̔ψηλᾱ́ hupsēlā́	ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ		ῠ̔ψηλούς hupsēloús	ῠ̔ψηλᾱ́ς hupsēlā́s	ῠ̔ψηλᾰ́ hupsēlá
Vocative		ῠ̔ψηλέ hupsēlé	ῠ̔ψηλή hupsēlḗ	ῠ̔ψηλόν hupsēlón		ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ	ῠ̔ψηλᾱ́ hupsēlā́	ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ		ῠ̔ψηλοί hupsēloí	ῠ̔ψηλαί hupsēlaí	ῠ̔ψηλᾰ́ hupsēlá
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ῠ̔ψηλῶς hupsēlôs				ῠ̔ψηλότερος hupsēlóteros				ῠ̔ψηλότᾰτος hupsēlótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First and second declension of ῠ̔ψηλός; ῠ̔ψηλή; ῠ̔ψηλόν (Epic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ῠ̔ψηλός hupsēlós	ῠ̔ψηλή hupsēlḗ	ῠ̔ψηλόν hupsēlón		ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ	ῠ̔ψηλᾱ́ hupsēlā́	ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ		ῠ̔ψηλοί hupsēloí	ῠ̔ψηλαί hupsēlaí	ῠ̔ψηλᾰ́ hupsēlá
Genitive		ῠ̔ψηλοῦ / ῠ̔ψηλοῖο / ῠ̔ψηλόο hupsēloû / hupsēloîo / hupsēlóo	ῠ̔ψηλῆς hupsēlês	ῠ̔ψηλοῦ / ῠ̔ψηλοῖο / ῠ̔ψηλόο hupsēloû / hupsēloîo / hupsēlóo		ῠ̔ψηλοῖῐν hupsēloîin	ῠ̔ψηλαῖν / ῠ̔ψηλαῖῐν / ῠ̔ψηλῇῐν hupsēlaî(i)n / hupsēlêiin	ῠ̔ψηλοῖῐν hupsēloîin		ῠ̔ψηλῶν hupsēlôn	ῠ̔ψηλᾱ́ων / ῠ̔ψηλέ͜ων / ῠ̔ψηλῶν hupsēlā́ōn / hupsēlé͜ōn / hupsēlôn	ῠ̔ψηλῶν hupsēlôn
Dative		ῠ̔ψηλῷ hupsēlôi	ῠ̔ψηλῇ hupsēlêi	ῠ̔ψηλῷ hupsēlôi		ῠ̔ψηλοῖῐν hupsēloîin	ῠ̔ψηλαῖν / ῠ̔ψηλαῖῐν / ῠ̔ψηλῇῐν hupsēlaî(i)n / hupsēlêiin	ῠ̔ψηλοῖῐν hupsēloîin		ῠ̔ψηλοῖσῐ / ῠ̔ψηλοῖσῐν / ῠ̔ψηλοῖς hupsēloîsi(n) / hupsēloîs	ῠ̔ψηλῇσῐ / ῠ̔ψηλῇσῐν / ῠ̔ψηλῇς / ῠ̔ψηλαῖς hupsēlêisi(n) / hupsēlêis / hupsēlaîs	ῠ̔ψηλοῖσῐ / ῠ̔ψηλοῖσῐν / ῠ̔ψηλοῖς hupsēloîsi(n) / hupsēloîs
Accusative		ῠ̔ψηλόν hupsēlón	ῠ̔ψηλήν hupsēlḗn	ῠ̔ψηλόν hupsēlón		ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ	ῠ̔ψηλᾱ́ hupsēlā́	ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ		ῠ̔ψηλούς hupsēloús	ῠ̔ψηλᾱ́ς hupsēlā́s	ῠ̔ψηλᾰ́ hupsēlá
Vocative		ῠ̔ψηλέ hupsēlé	ῠ̔ψηλή hupsēlḗ	ῠ̔ψηλόν hupsēlón		ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ	ῠ̔ψηλᾱ́ hupsēlā́	ῠ̔ψηλώ hupsēlṓ		ῠ̔ψηλοί hupsēloí	ῠ̔ψηλαί hupsēlaí	ῠ̔ψηλᾰ́ hupsēlá
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ῠ̔ψηλῶς hupsēlôs				ῠ̔ψηλότερος hupsēlóteros				ῠ̔ψηλότᾰτος hupsēlótatos
Notes:		Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

• ῠ̔ψηλόκρημνος (hupsēlókrēmnos)

Descendants

• Greek: ψηλός (psilós), υψηλός (ypsilós)

Further reading

• “ὑψηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑψηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὑψηλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὑψηλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὑψηλός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὑψηλός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5308 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boastful idem, page 87.
  • braggart idem, page 93.
  • branching idem, page 93.
  • contemptuous idem, page 167.
  • disdainful idem, page 232.
  • grandiloquent idem, page 369.
  • haughty idem, page 388.
  • high idem, page 399.
  • highest idem, page 400.
  • hilly idem, page 400.
  • inflated idem, page 438.
  • lofty idem, page 497.
  • magniloquent idem, page 507.
  • majestic idem, page 508.
  • proud idem, page 653.
  • scornful idem, page 741.
  • sonorous idem, page 793.
  • sounding idem, page 796.
  • sublime idem, page 831.
  • supercilious idem, page 838.
  • swelling idem, page 848.
  • towering idem, page 884.
  • vain idem, page 942.