αὐλωπίας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from αὐλός (aulós, “tube, pipe”) +‎ ὤψ (ṓps, “face”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱς (-ĭ́ās), but compare also ἀλλοπίας (allopías, “kind of tuna”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /au̯.lɔː.pí.aːs/ → /a.βloˈpi.as/ → /a.vloˈpi.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.lɔː.pí.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aw.loˈpi.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.βloˈpi.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.vloˈpi.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.vloˈpi.as/

Noun

αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς • (aulōpĭ́ās) m (genitive αὐλωπῐ́ου); first declension

1. unknown kind of fish, perhaps:
   1. dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus), or
   2. albacore, longfin tuna (Thunnus alalunga)

Inflection

First declension of ὁ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ αὐλωπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς ho aulōpĭ́ās	τὼ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ tṑ aulōpĭ́ā	οἱ αὐλωπῐ́αι hoi aulōpĭ́ai
Genitive	τοῦ αὐλωπῐ́ου toû aulōpĭ́ou	τοῖν αὐλωπῐ́αιν toîn aulōpĭ́ain	τῶν αὐλωπῐῶν tôn aulōpĭôn
Dative	τῷ αὐλωπῐ́ᾳ tôi aulōpĭ́āi	τοῖν αὐλωπῐ́αιν toîn aulōpĭ́ain	τοῖς αὐλωπῐ́αις toîs aulōpĭ́ais
Accusative	τὸν αὐλωπῐ́ᾱν tòn aulōpĭ́ān	τὼ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ tṑ aulōpĭ́ā	τοὺς αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς toùs aulōpĭ́ās
Vocative	αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ aulōpĭ́ā	αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ aulōpĭ́ā	αὐλωπῐ́αι aulōpĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “αὐλωπίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αὐλωπίας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὐλωπίας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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