ἀλωπεκία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx, “fox”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.lɔː.pe.kí.aː/ → /a.lo.peˈci.a/ → /a.lo.peˈci.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.lɔː.pe.kí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.lo.peˈki.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.lo.peˈci.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.lo.peˈci.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.lo.peˈci.a/

Noun

ἀλωπεκίᾱ • (alōpekíā) f (genitive ἀλωπεκίᾱs); first declension

1. (veterinary medicine) mange in foxes
2. (in the plural) bald patches on the head
3. (Byzantine) hair loss
4. fox's den

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾱ hē alōpekíā	τὼ ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾱ tṑ alōpekíā	αἱ ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́αι hai alōpekíai
Genitive	τῆς ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾱς tês alōpekíās	τοῖν ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́αιν toîn alōpekíain	τῶν ἀ̆λωπεκῐῶν tôn alōpekiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾳ têi alōpekíāi	τοῖν ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́αιν toîn alōpekíain	ταῖς ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́αις taîs alōpekíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾱν tḕn alōpekíān	τὼ ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾱ tṑ alōpekíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾱς tā̀s alōpekíās
Vocative	ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾱ alōpekíā	ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́ᾱ alōpekíā	ἀ̆λωπεκῐ́αι alōpekíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αλωπεκία (alopekía)
• → Latin: alōpecia
  • → English: alopecia
  • → French: alopécie (learned)
  • Old French: allopicie
  • → Indonesian: alopesia
  • → Italian: alopecia (learned)
  • → Polish: alopecja
  • → Portuguese: alopecia, alopécia (learned)
  • → Romanian: alopecie (learned)
  • → Spanish: alopecia (learned)

Further reading

• ἀλωπεκία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀλωπεκία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀλωπεκία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἀλωπεκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀλωπεκία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften