Ἀλφειός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ἀλφεός (Alpheós) — poetic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /al.pʰeː.ós/ → /al.ɸiˈos/ → /al.fiˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /al.pʰeː.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /al.pʰiˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /al.ɸiˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /al.fiˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /al.fiˈos/

Proper noun

Ἀλφειός • (Alpheiós) m (genitive Ἀλφειοῦ); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Alpheus or Alfeios, the name of a mythological river god and associated river

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ἀλφειός; τοῦ Ἀλφειοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἀλφειός ho Alpheiós
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀλφειοῦ toû Alpheioû
Dative	τῷ Ἀλφειῷ tôi Alpheiôi
Accusative	τὸν Ἀλφειόν tòn Alpheión
Vocative	Ἀλφειέ Alpheié
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Αλφειός (Alfeiós)
• Latin: Alphēüs
• → Russian: Алфе́й (Alféj)

References

• “Ἀλφειός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Ἀλφειός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Ἀλφειός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,000