ἠπειρώτης

See also: Ἠπειρώτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἤπειρος (ḗpeiros, “mainland”) +‎ -της (-tēs, masculine demonymic suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛː.peː.rɔ̌ː.tɛːs/ → /i.piˈro.tis/ → /i.piˈro.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.peː.rɔ̌ː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝.piˈro.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.piˈro.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.piˈro.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.piˈro.tis/

Noun

ἠπειρώτης • (ēpeirṓtēs) m (genitive ἠπειρώτου); first declension

1. landsman
2. mainland dweller, mainlander

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ἠπειρώτης; τοῦ ἠπειρώτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἠπειρώτης ho ēpeirṓtēs	τὼ ἠπειρώτᾱ tṑ ēpeirṓtā	οἱ ἠπειρῶται hoi ēpeirôtai
Genitive	τοῦ ἠπειρώτου toû ēpeirṓtou	τοῖν ἠπειρώταιν toîn ēpeirṓtain	τῶν ἠπειρωτῶν tôn ēpeirōtôn
Dative	τῷ ἠπειρώτῃ tôi ēpeirṓtēi	τοῖν ἠπειρώταιν toîn ēpeirṓtain	τοῖς ἠπειρώταις toîs ēpeirṓtais
Accusative	τὸν ἠπειρώτην tòn ēpeirṓtēn	τὼ ἠπειρώτᾱ tṑ ēpeirṓtā	τοὺς ἠπειρώτᾱς toùs ēpeirṓtās
Vocative	ἠπειρῶτᾰ ēpeirôta	ἠπειρώτᾱ ēpeirṓtā	ἠπειρῶται ēpeirôtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Coordinate terms

• ἠπειρῶτις f (ēpeirôtis)

Further reading

• ἠπειρώτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἠπειρώτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • epirus idem, page 279.
  • mainland idem, page 508.