ἄμφοδον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀμφι- (amphi-, “on both sides”) +‎ ὁδός (hodós, “way, path”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ám.pʰo.don/ → /ˈam.ɸo.ðon/ → /ˈam.fo.ðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ám.pʰo.don/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈam.pʰo.don/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈam.ɸo.ðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈam.fo.ðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈam.fo.ðon/

Noun

ἄμφοδον • (ámphodon) n (genitive ἀμφόδου); second declension

1. street (in an inhabited area)
2. block of houses, neighborhood, ward

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ᾰ̓́μφοδον; τοῦ ᾰ̓μφόδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ᾰ̓́μφοδον tò ắmphodon	τὼ ᾰ̓μφόδω tṑ ămphódō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́μφοδᾰ tằ ắmphodă
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓μφόδου toû ămphódou	τοῖν ᾰ̓μφόδοιν toîn ămphódoin	τῶν ᾰ̓μφόδων tôn ămphódōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓μφόδῳ tôi ămphódōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓μφόδοιν toîn ămphódoin	τοῖς ᾰ̓μφόδοις toîs ămphódois
Accusative	τὸ ᾰ̓́μφοδον tò ắmphodon	τὼ ᾰ̓μφόδω tṑ ămphódō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́μφοδᾰ tằ ắmphodă
Vocative	ᾰ̓́μφοδον ắmphodon	ᾰ̓μφόδω ămphódō	ᾰ̓́μφοδᾰ ắmphodă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

• The Gospel of Mark 11:4:

  ἀπῆλθον δὲ καὶ εὗρον τὸν πῶλον δεδεμένον πρὸς τὴν θύραν ἔξω ἐπὶ τοῦ ἀμφόδου, καὶ λύουσιν αὐτόν.

  apêlthon dè kaì heûron tòn pôlon dedeménon pròs tḕn thúran éxō epì toû amphódou, kaì lúousin autón.

  • Translation by Revised Standard Version

    And they went away, and found a colt tied at the door out in the open street; and they untied it.

Further reading

• ἄμφοδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄμφοδον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἄμφοδον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἄμφοδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G296 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible