ἐπουλίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Noun

ἐπουλῐ́ς • (epoulĭ́s) f (genitive ἐπουλῐ́δος); third declension

1. (medicine) A growth on the gum; an epulis.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἐπουλῐ́ς; τῆς ἐπουλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπουλῐ́ς hē epoulĭ́s	τὼ ἐπουλῐ́δε tṑ epoulĭ́de	αἱ ἐπουλῐ́δες hai epoulĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ἐπουλῐ́δος tês epoulĭ́dos	τοῖν ἐπουλῐ́δοιν toîn epoulĭ́doin	τῶν ἐπουλῐ́δων tôn epoulĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ἐπουλῐ́δῐ têi epoulĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ἐπουλῐ́δοιν toîn epoulĭ́doin	ταῖς ἐπουλῐ́σῐ / ἐπουλῐ́σῐν taîs epoulĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐπουλῐ́δᾰ tḕn epoulĭ́dă	τὼ ἐπουλῐ́δε tṑ epoulĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ἐπουλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s epoulĭ́dăs
Vocative	ἐπουλῐ́ς epoulĭ́s	ἐπουλῐ́δε epoulĭ́de	ἐπουλῐ́δες epoulĭ́des
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.

Related terms

• δῠσεπούλωτος (dŭsepoúlōtos)
• ἔπουλος (époulos)
• ἐπουλόω (epoulóō)
• ἐπούλωσῐς (epoúlōsĭs)
• ἐπουλωτῐκός (epoulōtĭkós)
• σῠνεπουλόομαι (sŭnepoulóomai)
• σῠνεπούλωσῐς (sŭnepoúlōsĭs)

Descendants

• → New Latin: epūlis
  • → English: epulis

References

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