ὕπνος

See also: Ὕπνος, Ύπνος, and ύπνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *húpnos, from Proto-Indo-European *supnós (“sleep”, noun). Cognate with Sanskrit स्वप्न (svápna).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.pnos/ → /ˈy.pnos/ → /ˈi.pnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.pnos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.pnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.pnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.pnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pnos/

Noun

ῠ̔́πνος • (húpnos) m (genitive ῠ̔́πνου); second declension

1. sleep, slumber
2. (figuratively) death

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῠ̔́πνος; τοῦ ῠ̔́πνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῠ̔́πνος ho húpnos	τὼ ῠ̔́πνω tṑ húpnō	οἱ ῠ̔́πνοι hoi húpnoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́πνου toû húpnou	τοῖν ῠ̔́πνοιν toîn húpnoin	τῶν ῠ̔́πνων tôn húpnōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́πνῳ tôi húpnōi	τοῖν ῠ̔́πνοιν toîn húpnoin	τοῖς ῠ̔́πνοις toîs húpnois
Accusative	τὸν ῠ̔́πνον tòn húpnon	τὼ ῠ̔́πνω tṑ húpnō	τοὺς ῠ̔́πνους toùs húpnous
Vocative	ῠ̔́πνε húpne	ῠ̔́πνω húpnō	ῠ̔́πνοι húpnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄγρῠπνος (ágrupnos)
• ἐνύπνιος (enúpnios)
• ὑπναλέος (hupnaléos)
• ὑπναπάτης (hupnapátēs)
• ὑπνάω (hupnáō)
• ὑπνηλός (hupnēlós)
• ὑπνηρός (hupnērós)
• ὑπνίδιος (hupnídios)
• ὑπνικός (hupnikós)
• ὑπνίζω (hupnízō)
• ὑπνοδότειρα (hupnodóteira)
• ὑπνοδότης (hupnodótēs)
• ὑπνοφανής (hupnophanḗs)
• ὑπνοφόβης (hupnophóbēs)
• ὑπνοφόρος (hupnophóros)
• ὑπνομαχέω (hupnomakhéō)
• ὑπνοποιέω (hupnopoiéō)
• ὑπνοποιός (hupnopoiós)
• Ὕπνος (Húpnos)
• ὑπνόω (hupnóō)
• ὑπνώδης (hupnṓdēs)
• ὑπνώδια (hupnṓdia)
• ὑπνώσσω (hupnṓssō)
• ὑπνωτικός (hupnōtikós)
• ὑπνώω (hupnṓō)

Descendants

• Greek: ύπνος (ýpnos)
• Mariupol Greek: и́пно (ípno)

Further reading

• “ὕπνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὕπνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὕπνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὕπνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὕπνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὕπνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5258 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.
  • repose idem, page 697.
  • rest idem, page 704.
  • sleep idem, page 783.
  • trance idem, page 887.
• “ὕπνος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011