ὕψος

See also: ύψος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῠ̔́ψῐ (húpsi, “aloft”), probably related to ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”).^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hýp.sos/ → /ˈyp.sos/ → /ˈip.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hýp.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)yp.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈyp.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈyp.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈip.sos/

Noun

ῠ̔́ψος • (húpsos) n (genitive ῠ̔́ψεος or ῠ̔́ψους); third declension

1. height
2. the top, summit
3. high position: grandeur
4. pride

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῠ̔́ψος tò húpsos	τὼ ῠ̔́ψει tṑ húpsei	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́ψη tà húpsē
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́ψους toû húpsous	τοῖν ῠ̔ψοῖν toîn hupsoîn	τῶν ῠ̔ψῶν tôn hupsôn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́ψει tôi húpsei	τοῖν ῠ̔ψοῖν toîn hupsoîn	τοῖς ῠ̔́ψεσῐ / ῠ̔́ψεσῐν toîs húpsesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῠ̔́ψος tò húpsos	τὼ ῠ̔́ψει tṑ húpsei	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́ψη tà húpsē
Vocative	ῠ̔́ψος húpsos	ῠ̔́ψει húpsei	ῠ̔́ψη húpsē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ ῠ̔́ψος; τοῦ ῠ̔́ψους (Attic)

Derived terms

• ὑψόθεν (hupsóthen)
• ὑψόω (hupsóō, “lift up, elevate”)

Descendants

• English: hyps-, hypsi-, hypso-
• Greek: ύψος (ýpsos)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὕψι ( > DER > 3. ὕψος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1541

Further reading

• “ὕψος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὕψος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὕψος 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
• G5311 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.
  • elevation idem, page 265.
  • height idem, page 394.
  • loftiness idem, page 497.
• “ὕψος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011