ὕπτιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)up-ti-os, from *upó (under, below).

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

ὕπτῐος • (húptios) m (feminine ὑπτίᾱ, neuter ὕπτῐον); first/second declension

  1. lying on one's back; supine
    Antonym: πρᾱνής (prānḗs)

Declension

Further reading

  • ὕπτιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὕπτιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ὕπτιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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