βρέφος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷrebʰ-. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic жрѣбѧ (žrěbę) and Irish bromach.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bré.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbrɛ.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβre.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvre.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvre.fos/
Noun
βρέφος • (bréphos) n (genitive βρέφεος or βρέφους); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ βρέφος tò bréphos |
τὼ βρέφεε tṑ bréphee |
τᾰ̀ βρέφεᾰ tà bréphea | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βρέφεος toû brépheos |
τοῖν βρεφέοιν toîn brephéoin |
τῶν βρεφέων tôn brephéōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βρέφεῐ̈ tôi brépheï |
τοῖν βρεφέοιν toîn brephéoin |
τοῖς βρέφεσῐ(ν) toîs bréphesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ βρέφος tò bréphos |
τὼ βρέφεε tṑ bréphee |
τᾰ̀ βρέφεᾰ tà bréphea | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βρέφος bréphos |
βρέφεε bréphee |
βρέφεᾰ bréphea | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Greek: βρέφος n (vréfos)
Further reading
- βρέφος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βρέφος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
- 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
- G1025 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βρέφος (bréphos), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrebʰ-
Noun
βρέφος • (vréfos) n (plural βρέφη)
Declension
Synonyms
- μωρό n (moró)
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