φάψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is similar to other bird names, such as γύψ (gúps, “vulture”) and σκώψ (skṓps, “owl”). The word is clearly related to φάσσα (phássa, “pigeon”) and thus Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰáps/ → /ɸaps/ → /faps/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰáps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰaps/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸaps/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /faps/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /faps/

Noun

φᾰ́ψ • (phắps) f (genitive φᾰβός); third declension

1. wild pigeon

Declension

Third declension of ἡ φᾰ́ψ; τῆς φᾰβός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φᾰ́ψ hē phắps	τὼ φᾰ́βε tṑ phắbe	αἱ φᾰ́βες hai phắbes
Genitive	τῆς φᾰβός tês phăbós	τοῖν φᾰβοῖν toîn phăboîn	τῶν φᾰβῶν tôn phăbôn
Dative	τῇ φᾰβῐ́ têi phăbĭ́	τοῖν φᾰβοῖν toîn phăboîn	ταῖς φᾰψῐ́ / φᾰψῐ́ν taîs phăpsĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὴν φᾰ́βᾰ tḕn phắbă	τὼ φᾰ́βε tṑ phắbe	τᾱ̀ς φᾰ́βᾰς tā̀s phắbăs
Vocative	φᾰ́ψ phắps	φᾰ́βε phắbe	φᾰ́βες phắbes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φαβοκτόνος (phaboktónos)
• φαβοτύπος (phabotúpos)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Phaps

Further reading

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