οἰσύπη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οἴσυπος (oísupos)

Etymology

Explained as "ὀϝι-σύπη", like the synonym οἰσπώτη (oispṓtē), with an unclear second member. There is clear evidence for οἴσπη (oíspē, “sheep dung”), but it is difficult to decide whether the form with "υ" or the form without it is secondary. According to Beekes, the word is undoubtedly from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oi̯.sý.pɛː/ → /yˈsy.pi/ → /iˈsi.pi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oi̯.sý.pɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /yˈsy.pe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈsy.pi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈsy.pi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈsi.pi/

Noun

οἰσύπη • (oisúpē) f (genitive οἰσύπης); first declension

1. lanolin, grease extracted from sheep's wool

Inflection

First declension of ἡ οἰσύπη; τῆς οἰσύπης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ οἰσύπη hē oisúpē	τὼ οἰσύπᾱ tṑ oisúpā	αἱ οἰσύπαι hai oisúpai
Genitive	τῆς οἰσύπης tês oisúpēs	τοῖν οἰσύπαιν toîn oisúpain	τῶν οἰσυπῶν tôn oisupôn
Dative	τῇ οἰσύπῃ têi oisúpēi	τοῖν οἰσύπαιν toîn oisúpain	ταῖς οἰσύπαις taîs oisúpais
Accusative	τὴν οἰσύπην tḕn oisúpēn	τὼ οἰσύπᾱ tṑ oisúpā	τᾱ̀ς οἰσύπᾱς tā̀s oisúpās
Vocative	οἰσύπη oisúpē	οἰσύπᾱ oisúpā	οἰσύπαι oisúpai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• οἰσύπειον (oisúpeion)
• οἰσυπηρός (oisupērós)
• οἰσυπίς (oisupís)
• οἰσυπόεις (oisupóeis)
• οἰσυπώδης (oisupṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: oesypum
• → Classical Syriac: ܙܘܦܐ (zōpā)

Further reading

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