λοπάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly from λοπός (lopós, “shell, scale; bark”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás). Ultimately from the same root of λέπω (lépō, “to peel”). See also λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”) for a similar derivation.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lo.pás/ → /loˈpas/ → /loˈpas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lo.pás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /loˈpas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /loˈpas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /loˈpas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /loˈpas/

Noun

λοπᾰ́ς • (lopás) f (genitive λοπᾰ́δος); third declension

1. flat dish, plate
2. pan
3. A plant disease

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ λοπᾰ́ς; τῆς λοπᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λοπᾰ́ς hē lopás	τὼ λοπᾰ́δε tṑ lopáde	αἱ λοπᾰ́δες hai lopádes
Genitive	τῆς λοπᾰ́δος tês lopádos	τοῖν λοπᾰ́δοιν toîn lopádoin	τῶν λοπᾰ́δων tôn lopádōn
Dative	τῇ λοπᾰ́δῐ têi lopádi	τοῖν λοπᾰ́δοιν toîn lopádoin	ταῖς λοπᾰ́σῐ / λοπᾰ́σῐν taîs lopási(n)
Accusative	τὴν λοπᾰ́δᾰ tḕn lopáda	τὼ λοπᾰ́δε tṑ lopáde	τᾱ̀ς λοπᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s lopádas
Vocative	λοπᾰ́ς lopás	λοπᾰ́δε lopáde	λοπᾰ́δες lopádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “λοπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λοπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λοπάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • charger idem, page 125.
  • dish idem, page 234.
  • plate idem, page 618.
• 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, page 871