ἕρπυλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἕρπω (hérpō, “to creep, crawl”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hér.pyl.los/ → /ˈer.pyl.los/ → /ˈer.pi.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hér.pyl.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)er.pyl.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈer.pyl.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈer.pyl.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈer.pi.los/

Noun

ἕρπῠλλος • (hérpullos) m (genitive ἑρπῠ́λλου); second declension

1. wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum)

   Synonyms: ἀγρῐόπρᾰσον (agrióprason), ζῠγῐ́ς (zugís)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἕρπῠλλος; τοῦ ἑρπῠ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἕρπῠλλος ho hérpullos	τὼ ἑρπῠ́λλω tṑ herpúllō	οἱ ἕρπῠλλοι hoi hérpulloi
Genitive	τοῦ ἑρπῠ́λλου toû herpúllou	τοῖν ἑρπῠ́λλοιν toîn herpúlloin	τῶν ἑρπῠ́λλων tôn herpúllōn
Dative	τῷ ἑρπῠ́λλῳ tôi herpúllōi	τοῖν ἑρπῠ́λλοιν toîn herpúlloin	τοῖς ἑρπῠ́λλοις toîs herpúllois
Accusative	τὸν ἕρπῠλλον tòn hérpullon	τὼ ἑρπῠ́λλω tṑ herpúllō	τοὺς ἑρπῠ́λλους toùs herpúllous
Vocative	ἕρπῠλλε hérpulle	ἑρπῠ́λλω herpúllō	ἕρπῠλλοι hérpulloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἑρπῠλλᾰ́ρῐον (herpullárion)
• ἑρπῠ́λλῐνος (herpúllinos)
• ἑρπῠ́λλῐον (herpúllion)
• ἑρπῠλλῐ́ς (herpullís)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: serpyllum

Further reading

• “ἕρπυλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἕρπυλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἕρπυλλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette