ἑρπετόν
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Substantivized verbal adjective of ἕρπω (hérpō). Compare Sanskrit सर्प (sarpá, “snake, serpent”), Latin serpēns.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /her.pe.tón/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)er.peˈton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /er.peˈton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /er.peˈton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /er.peˈton/
Noun
[edit]ἑρπετόν • (herpetón) n (genitive ἑρπετοῦ); second declension
Usage notes
[edit]- Along with ᾠόν (ōión), λουτρόν (loutrón), πτερόν (pterón) and ζυγόν (zugón), this is one of the very few neuter nouns that does not have a recessive accent.
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἑρπετόν tò herpetón |
τὼ ἑρπετώ tṑ herpetṓ |
τᾰ̀ ἑρπετᾰ́ tà herpetá | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἑρπετοῦ toû herpetoû |
τοῖν ἑρπετοῖν toîn herpetoîn |
τῶν ἑρπετῶν tôn herpetôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἑρπετῷ tôi herpetôi |
τοῖν ἑρπετοῖν toîn herpetoîn |
τοῖς ἑρπετοῖς toîs herpetoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἑρπετόν tò herpetón |
τὼ ἑρπετώ tṑ herpetṓ |
τᾰ̀ ἑρπετᾰ́ tà herpetá | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἑρπετόν herpetón |
ἑρπετώ herpetṓ |
ἑρπετᾰ́ herpetá | ||||||||||
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Related terms
[edit]- ἕρπω (hérpō)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ἑρπετόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἑρπετόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2062 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.