ἠπειρῶτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἤπειρος (ḗpeiros, “mainland”) +‎ -ις (-is, feminine demonymic suffix).

Pronunciation

 

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

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.peː.rɔ̂ː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝.piˈro.tis/
• (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

ἠπειρῶτῐς • (ēpeirôtĭs) f (genitive ἠπειρώτῐδος); third declension

1. female mainland dweller, mainlander

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἠπειρῶτῐς; τῆς ἠπειρώτῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἠπειρῶτῐς hē ēpeirôtĭs	τὼ ἠπειρώτῐδε tṑ ēpeirṓtĭde	αἱ ἠπειρώτῐδες hai ēpeirṓtĭdes
Genitive	τῆς ἠπειρώτῐδος tês ēpeirṓtĭdos	τοῖν ἠπειρωτῐ́δοιν toîn ēpeirōtĭ́doin	τῶν ἠπειρωτῐ́δων tôn ēpeirōtĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ἠπειρώτῐδῐ têi ēpeirṓtĭdĭ	τοῖν ἠπειρωτῐ́δοιν toîn ēpeirōtĭ́doin	ταῖς ἠπειρώτῐσῐ / ἠπειρώτῐσῐν taîs ēpeirṓtĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἠπειρώτῐδᾰ tḕn ēpeirṓtĭdă	τὼ ἠπειρώτῐδε tṑ ēpeirṓtĭde	τᾱ̀ς ἠπειρώτῐδᾰς tā̀s ēpeirṓtĭdăs
Vocative	ἠπειρῶτῐς ēpeirôtĭs	ἠπειρώτῐδε ēpeirṓtĭde	ἠπειρώτῐδες ēpeirṓtĭdes
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.

Coordinate terms

• ἠπειρώτης m (ēpeirṓtēs)

Further reading

• ἠπειρῶτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἠπειρῶτις”, 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.
  • asia idem, page 44.
  • eastern idem, page 260.
  • mainland idem, page 508.