ὑπόβαθρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὑπο- (hupo-, under) +‎ βᾰ́θρον (báthron, “base, pedestal”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.pó.ba.tʰron/ → /yˈpo.βa.θron/ → /iˈpo.va.θron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.pó.ba.tʰron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yˈpo.ba.tʰron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈpo.βa.θron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈpo.va.θron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈpo.va.θron/

Noun

ὑπόβᾰθρον • (hupóbathron) n (genitive ὑποβᾰ́θρου); second declension

1. base, anything put under, hence:
   1. footstool
   2. wooden framework to support a couch, a kind of rocking apparatus
   3. keel of a ship
   4. step

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὑπόβᾰθρον; τοῦ ὑποβᾰ́θρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὑπόβᾰθρον tò hupóbathron	τὼ ὑποβᾰ́θρω tṑ hupobáthrō	τᾰ̀ ὑπόβᾰθρᾰ tà hupóbathra
Genitive	τοῦ ὑποβᾰ́θρου toû hupobáthrou	τοῖν ὑποβᾰ́θροιν toîn hupobáthroin	τῶν ὑποβᾰ́θρων tôn hupobáthrōn
Dative	τῷ ὑποβᾰ́θρῳ tôi hupobáthrōi	τοῖν ὑποβᾰ́θροιν toîn hupobáthroin	τοῖς ὑποβᾰ́θροις toîs hupobáthrois
Accusative	τὸ ὑπόβᾰθρον tò hupóbathron	τὼ ὑποβᾰ́θρω tṑ hupobáthrō	τᾰ̀ ὑπόβᾰθρᾰ tà hupóbathra
Vocative	ὑπόβᾰθρον hupóbathron	ὑποβᾰ́θρω hupobáthrō	ὑπόβᾰθρᾰ hupóbathra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὑπόβαθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑπόβαθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὑπόβαθρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette