Ἀλόπη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ló.pɛː/ → /aˈlo.pi/ → /aˈlo.pi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ló.pɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈlo.pe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈlo.pi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈlo.pi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈlo.pi/

Proper noun

Ἀλόπη • (Alópē) f (genitive Ἀλόπης); first declension

1. Alope, Phthiotis, Greece
2. (Greek mythology) daughter of Cercyon and mother of Hippothoon

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἀλόπη; τῆς Ἀλόπης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἀλόπη hē Alópē
Genitive	τῆς Ἀλόπης tês Alópēs
Dative	τῇ Ἀλόπῃ têi Alópēi
Accusative	τὴν Ἀλόπην tḕn Alópēn
Vocative	Ἀλόπη Alópē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἀλοπεύς (Alopeús)
• Ἀλοπῑ́της (Alopī́tēs)

Descendants

• Greek: Αλόπη (Alópi)
• Latin: Alopē

References

• “Ἀλόπη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Ἀλόπη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,000