Ἄναπος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain, possibly from a substrate language. Said to come from the same origin of ἀναπίνω (anapínō, “to absorb, suck up, drink in”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up to, thoroughly”) + πίνω (pínō, “I drink, giggle, swallow, absorb”), meaning "The one who swallows", due to the fact that its river path disappears underground to reappear further on several times; also compared with the opposite Ancient Greek ἀναβαίνω (anabaínō). Cfr. Ancient Greek Αἴσηπος (Aísēpos) for a similar morphology.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.naː.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.na.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.na.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.na.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.na.pos/
Proper noun
[edit]Ἄνᾱπος • (Ánāpos) m (genitive Ἄνᾱ́που); second declension
- It was a river in ancient Acarnania, tributary of the Achelous River, which it joined eighty stadia south of Stratus.
- One of the most considerable rivers in Sicily, which flows into the great harbour of Syracusae, now the river Anapo.
- (Greek mythology) Anapus, a water god of eastern Sicily. He opposed the kidnapping of Persephone along with the nymph Cyane, then Hades turned them into a river (the river Anapo) and a fountain, respectively.
Inflection
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Ἄναπος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,001
- “ἀναπίνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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