ἑρπετόν
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὄρπετον (órpeton) (Aeolic)
Etymology
Substantivized verbal adjective of ἕρπω (hérpō). Compare Sanskrit सर्प (sarpá, “snake, serpent”), Latin serpēns.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /her.pe.tón/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)er.peˈton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /er.peˈton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /er.peˈton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /er.peˈton/
Noun
ἑρπετόν • (herpetón) n (genitive ἑρπετοῦ); second declension
Usage notes
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἑρπετόν tò herpetón |
τὼ ἑρπετώ tṑ herpetṓ |
τᾰ̀ ἑρπετᾰ́ tà herpetá | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἑρπετοῦ toû herpetoû |
τοῖν ἑρπετοῖν toîn herpetoîn |
τῶν ἑρπετῶν tôn herpetôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἑρπετῷ tôi herpetôi |
τοῖν ἑρπετοῖν toîn herpetoîn |
τοῖς ἑρπετοῖς toîs herpetoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἑρπετόν tò herpetón |
τὼ ἑρπετώ tṑ herpetṓ |
τᾰ̀ ἑρπετᾰ́ tà herpetá | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἑρπετόν herpetón |
ἑρπετώ herpetṓ |
ἑρπετᾰ́ herpetá | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- ἕρπω (hérpō)
Further reading
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἑρπετόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2062 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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