αὐλωπίας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from αὐλός (aulós, “tube, pipe”) +‎ ὤψ (ṓps, “face”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱς (-íās), but compare also ἀλλοπίας (allopías, “kind of tuna”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /au̯.lɔː.pí.aːs/ → /a.βloˈpi.as/ → /a.vloˈpi.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.lɔː.pí.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aw.loˈpi.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.βloˈpi.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.vloˈpi.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.vloˈpi.as/

Noun

αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς • (aulōpíās) m (genitive αὐλωπῐ́ου); first declension

1. unknown kind of fish, perhaps:
   1. dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus), or
   2. albacore, longfin tuna (Thunnus alalunga)

Inflection

First declension of ὁ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ αὐλωπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς ho aulōpíās	τὼ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ tṑ aulōpíā	οἱ αὐλωπῐ́αι hoi aulōpíai
Genitive	τοῦ αὐλωπῐ́ου toû aulōpíou	τοῖν αὐλωπῐ́αιν toîn aulōpíain	τῶν αὐλωπῐῶν tôn aulōpiôn
Dative	τῷ αὐλωπῐ́ᾳ tôi aulōpíāi	τοῖν αὐλωπῐ́αιν toîn aulōpíain	τοῖς αὐλωπῐ́αις toîs aulōpíais
Accusative	τὸν αὐλωπῐ́ᾱν tòn aulōpíān	τὼ αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ tṑ aulōpíā	τοὺς αὐλωπῐ́ᾱς toùs aulōpíās
Vocative	αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ aulōpíā	αὐλωπῐ́ᾱ aulōpíā	αὐλωπῐ́αι aulōpíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “αὐλωπίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αὐλωπίας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὐλωπίας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN