Ἰνωπός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps a combination of the same root as ἰνόω (inóō, “make strong; flow, pour”) and Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.nɔː.pós/ → /i.noˈpos/ → /i.noˈpos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.nɔː.pós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.noˈpos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.noˈpos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.noˈpos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.noˈpos/

Proper noun

Ἰ̄νωπός • (Īnōpós) m (genitive Ἰ̄νωποῦ); second declension

1. a fountain and river in the island of Delos, where Leto brought forth Apollo and Artemis (It is said to have risen and fallen at the same time with the Nile, and hence was supposed to be connected with it by a subterranean channel.)
2. a building at the source of the river

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Ῑ̓νωπός; τοῦ Ῑ̓νωποῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῑ̓νωπός ho Īnōpós
Genitive	τοῦ Ῑ̓νωποῦ toû Īnōpoû
Dative	τῷ Ῑ̓νωπῷ tôi Īnōpôi
Accusative	τὸν Ῑ̓νωπόν tòn Īnōpón
Vocative	Ῑ̓νωπέ Īnōpé
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἰ̄νωποφῠ́λᾰξ (Īnōpophŭ́lăx)

Descendants

• Latin: Īnōpus

References

• “Ἰνωπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἰνωπός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette