ἔριφος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-, with cognates including Latin ariēs, and Lithuanian ėriukas.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /é.ri.pʰos/ → /ˈe.ri.ɸos/ → /ˈe.ri.fos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.ri.pʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ri.pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ri.ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ri.fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ri.fos/

Noun

ἔρῐφος • (ériphos) m or f (genitive ἐρῐ́φου); second declension

1. kid, young goat

Usage notes

• Primarily masculine, sometimes feminine.

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ ἔρῐφος ho, hē ériphos	τὼ ἐρῐ́φω tṑ eríphō	οἱ, αἱ ἔρῐφοι hoi, hai ériphoi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς ἐρῐ́φου toû, tês eríphou	τοῖν ἐρῐ́φοιν toîn eríphoin	τῶν ἐρῐ́φων tôn eríphōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ ἐρῐ́φῳ tôi, têi eríphōi	τοῖν ἐρῐ́φοιν toîn eríphoin	τοῖς, ταῖς ἐρῐ́φοις toîs, taîs eríphois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν ἔρῐφον tòn, tḕn ériphon	τὼ ἐρῐ́φω tṑ eríphō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ἐρῐ́φους toùs, tā̀s eríphous
Vocative	ἔρῐφε ériphe	ἐρῐ́φω eríphō	ἔρῐφοι ériphoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ ἔρῐφος; τοῦ, τῆς ἐρῐ́φου (Attic)

Derived terms

• ἐρίφιον (eríphion)

Further reading

• “ἔριφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔριφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔριφος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔριφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἔριφος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἔριφος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2056 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • kid idem, page 468.