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ὠκύπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠκύπος ὠκύπον

Structure: ὠκυπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: rare poet. collat. form of w)ku/pous, Anth.

Sense

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ὠκύπος ώ̓κυπον
Genitive ὠκύπου ὠκύπου
Dative ὠκύπῳ ὠκύπῳ
Accusative ὠκύπον ώ̓κυπον
Vocative ὠκύπε ώ̓κυπον
DualN/A/V ὠκύπω ὠκύπω
G/D ὠκύποιν ὠκύποιν
PluralNominative ὠκύποι ώ̓κυπα
Genitive ὠκύπων ὠκύπων
Dative ὠκύποις ὠκύποις
Accusative ὠκύπους ώ̓κυπα
Vocative ὠκύποι ώ̓κυπα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὠκύπος ὠκύπου ὠκυπότερος ὠκυποτέρου ὠκυπότατος ὠκυποτάτου
Adverb ὠκύπως ὠκυπότερον ὠκυπότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τί γὰρ παλαίσασ εὖ, τί δὲ ὠκύπουσ ἀνήρ ἢ δίσκον ἄρασ ἢ γνάθον παίσασ καλῶσ πόλει ι πατρῴᾳ στέφανον ἤρκεσεν λαβών; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 5 2:1)
  • κεῖνοσ γὰρ ἄλλησ ἡμέρασ, ὅθ’ ἱππικῶν ἦν ἡλίου τέλλοντοσ ὠκύπουσ ἀγών, εἰσῆλθε πολλῶν ἁρματηλατῶν μέτα. (Sophocles, episode 6:9)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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