ἐπιδιδυμίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπι- (epi-, “on, upon”) +‎ δίδυμος (dídumos, “twin; the testicles”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pi.di.dy.mís/ → /e.pi.ði.ðyˈmis/ → /e.pi.ði.ðiˈmis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pi.di.dy.mís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.pi.di.dyˈmis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.ði.ðyˈmis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.pi.ði.ðyˈmis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.pi.ði.ðiˈmis/

Noun

ἐπῐδῐδῠμίς • (epididumís) f (genitive ἐπῐδῐδῠμίδος); third declension

1. (anatomy) epididymis

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́ς; τῆς ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́ς hē epididumís	τὼ ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δε tṑ epididumíde	αἱ ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δες hai epididumídes
Genitive	τῆς ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δος tês epididumídos	τοῖν ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δοιν toîn epididumídoin	τῶν ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δων tôn epididumídōn
Dative	τῇ ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δῐ têi epididumídi	τοῖν ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δοιν toîn epididumídoin	ταῖς ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́σῐ / ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́σῐν taîs epididumísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δᾰ tḕn epididumída	τὼ ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δε tṑ epididumíde	τᾱ̀ς ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δᾰς tā̀s epididumídas
Vocative	ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́ς epididumís	ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δε epididumíde	ἐπῐδῐδῠμῐ́δες epididumídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Catalan: epidídim
• → English: epididymis
• → French: épididyme
• → Greek: επιδιδυμίδα (epididymída) (learned)
• → Italian: epididimo
• Latin: (scientific Latin) epididymus
  • Spanish: epidídimo

References

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