δρῶπαξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *drep- (“to pluck”) and related to δρέπω (drépō, “to pluck, cut off”) and δρεπάνη (drepánē, “sickle”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /drɔ̂ː.paks/ → /ˈðro.paks/ → /ˈðro.paks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /drɔ̂ː.paks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdro.paks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈðro.paks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈðro.paks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈðro.paks/

Noun

δρῶπᾰξ • (drôpax) m (genitive δρώπᾰκος); third declension

1. pitch plaster used in medicine

Declension

Third declension of ὁ δρῶπᾰξ; τοῦ δρώπᾰκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ δρῶπᾰξ ho drôpax	τὼ δρώπᾰκε tṑ drṓpake	οἱ δρώπᾰκες hoi drṓpakes
Genitive	τοῦ δρώπᾰκος toû drṓpakos	τοῖν δρωπᾰ́κοιν toîn drōpákoin	τῶν δρωπᾰ́κων tôn drōpákōn
Dative	τῷ δρώπᾰκῐ tôi drṓpaki	τοῖν δρωπᾰ́κοιν toîn drōpákoin	τοῖς δρώπᾰξῐ / δρώπᾰξῐν toîs drṓpaxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν δρώπᾰκᾰ tòn drṓpaka	τὼ δρώπᾰκε tṑ drṓpake	τοὺς δρώπᾰκᾰς toùs drṓpakas
Vocative	δρῶπᾰξ drôpax	δρώπᾰκε drṓpake	δρώπᾰκες drṓpakes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δρωπακίζω (drōpakízō)
• δρωπακισμός (drōpakismós)
• δρωπακιστέον (drōpakistéon)
• δρωπακιστής (drōpakistḗs)
• δρωπακιστός (drōpakistós)
• δρωπακίστρια (drōpakístria)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: drōpax

Further reading

• “δρῶπαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δρῶπαξ 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