Μεσσάπιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Pokorny, the Messapic name means "amid waters," from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos + *h₂ep-, the latter of which gave their region Apulia.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

Μεσσάπῐος • (Messápios) m (genitive Μεσσαπίου); second declension

  1. one of the Messapii; a Messapian

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Μεσσάπιος; τοῦ Μεσσαπίου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ Μεσσάπιος
ho Messápios		 τὼ Μεσσαπίω
tṑ Messapíō		 οἱ Μεσσάπιοι
hoi Messápioi
Genitive τοῦ Μεσσαπίου
toû Messapíou		 τοῖν Μεσσαπίοιν
toîn Messapíoin		 τῶν Μεσσαπίων
tôn Messapíōn
Dative τῷ Μεσσαπίῳ
tôi Messapíōi		 τοῖν Μεσσαπίοιν
toîn Messapíoin		 τοῖς Μεσσαπίοις
toîs Messapíois
Accusative τὸν Μεσσάπιον
tòn Messápion		 τὼ Μεσσαπίω
tṑ Messapíō		 τοὺς Μεσσαπίους
toùs Messapíous
Vocative Μεσσάπιε
Messápie		 Μεσσαπίω
Messapíō		 Μεσσάπιοι
Messápioi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Μεσσάπιος (Messápios)
  • → Latin: Messapius

References
  • de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999) Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN

Further reading
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017
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