Ἄναπος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain, possibly from a substrate language. Said to come from the same origin of ἀναπίνω (anapínō, “to absorb, suck up, drink in”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up to, thoroughly”) +‎ πίνω (pínō, “I drink, giggle, swallow, absorb”), meaning "The one who swallows", due to the fact that its river path disappears underground to reappear further on several times; also compared with the opposite Ancient Greek ἀναβαίνω (anabaínō). Cfr. Ancient Greek Αἴσηπος (Aísēpos) for a similar morphology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.naː.pos/ → /ˈa.na.pos/ → /ˈa.na.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.naː.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.pos/

Proper noun

Ἄνᾱπος • (Ánāpos) m (genitive Ἄνᾱ́που); second declension

1. It was a river in ancient Acarnania, tributary of the Achelous River, which it joined eighty stadia south of Stratus.
2. One of the most considerable rivers in Sicily, which flows into the great harbour of Syracusae, now the river Anapo.
3. (Greek mythology) Anapus, a water god of eastern Sicily. He opposed the kidnapping of Persephone along with the nymph Cyane, then Hades turned them into a river (the river Anapo) and a fountain, respectively.

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ἄνᾱπος; τοῦ Ἀνᾱ́που (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἄνᾱπος ho Ánāpos
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀνᾱ́που toû Anā́pou
Dative	τῷ Ἀνᾱ́πῳ tôi Anā́pōi
Accusative	τὸν Ἄνᾱπον tòn Ánāpon
Vocative	Ἄνᾱπε Ánāpe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Άναπος (Ánapos)
• Latin: Anāpus, Anāpis
  • Italian: Anapo
  • Sicilian: Ànapu

References

• Ἄναπος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,001
• “ἀναπίνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press