ἴαμβος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly of Illyrian or Phrygian origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /í.am.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.am.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.am.bos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.am.bos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.am.bos/
Noun
ῐ̓́ᾰμβος • (íambos) m (genitive ῐ̓ᾰ́μβου); second declension
- an iamb
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ῐ̓́ᾰμβος ho íambos |
τὼ ῐ̓ᾰ́μβω tṑ iámbō |
οἱ ῐ̓́ᾰμβοι hoi íamboi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῐ̓ᾰ́μβου toû iámbou |
τοῖν ῐ̓ᾰ́μβοιν toîn iámboin |
τῶν ῐ̓ᾰ́μβων tôn iámbōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῐ̓ᾰ́μβῳ tôi iámbōi |
τοῖν ῐ̓ᾰ́μβοιν toîn iámboin |
τοῖς ῐ̓ᾰ́μβοις toîs iámbois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ῐ̓́ᾰμβον tòn íambon |
τὼ ῐ̓ᾰ́μβω tṑ iámbō |
τοὺς ῐ̓ᾰ́μβους toùs iámbous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῐ̓́ᾰμβε íambe |
ῐ̓ᾰ́μβω iámbō |
ῐ̓́ᾰμβοι íamboi | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
References
- ἴαμβος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἴαμβος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἴαμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- iambic verse idem, page 413.
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