έπω
See also: ἕπω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From earlier ϝέπος (wépos), from Proto-Hellenic *wékʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *wékʷos, from *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognates include Sanskrit वचस् (vácas) and Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬗𐬀𐬵- (vacah-).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.pɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.po/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.po/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.po/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.po/
Inflection
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | έπω | έπεις | έπει | έπετον | έπετον | έπομεν | έπετε | έπουσῐ(ν) | ||||
| subjunctive | έπω | έπῃς | έπῃ | έπητον | έπητον | έπωμεν | έπητε | έπωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | έποιμῐ | έποις | έποι | έποιτον | εποίτην | έποιμεν | έποιτε | έποιεν | |||||
| imperative | έπε | επέτω | έπετον | επέτων | έπετε | επόντων | |||||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | έπομαι | έπῃ, έπει |
έπεται | έπεσθον | έπεσθον | επόμεθᾰ | έπεσθε | έπονται | ||||
| subjunctive | έπωμαι | έπῃ | έπηται | έπησθον | έπησθον | επώμεθᾰ | έπησθε | έπωνται | |||||
| optative | εποίμην | έποιο | έποιτο | έποισθον | εποίσθην | εποίμεθᾰ | έποισθε | έποιντο | |||||
| imperative | έπου | επέσθω | έπεσθον | επέσθων | έπεσθε | επέσθων | |||||||
| active | middle/passive | ||||||||||||
| infinitive | έπειν | έπεσθαι | |||||||||||
| participle | m | έπων | επόμενος | ||||||||||
| f | έπουσᾰ | επομένη | |||||||||||
| n | έπον | επόμενον | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “speak”): ἔρδω (érdō, “act”)
Further reading
- “έπω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “έπω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- έπω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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