λοπάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly from λοπός (lopós, “shell, scale; bark”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás). Ultimately from the same root of λέπω (lépō, “to peel”). See also λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”) for a similar derivation.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

λοπᾰ́ς • (lopás) f (genitive λοπᾰ́δος); third declension

  1. flat dish, plate
  2. pan
  3. A plant disease

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ λοπᾰ́ς; τῆς λοπᾰ́δος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ λοπᾰ́ς
hē lopás		 τὼ λοπᾰ́δε
tṑ lopáde		 αἱ λοπᾰ́δες
hai lopádes
Genitive τῆς λοπᾰ́δος
tês lopádos		 τοῖν λοπᾰ́δοιν
toîn lopádoin		 τῶν λοπᾰ́δων
tôn lopádōn
Dative τῇ λοπᾰ́δῐ
têi lopádi		 τοῖν λοπᾰ́δοιν
toîn lopádoin		 ταῖς λοπᾰ́σῐ / λοπᾰ́σῐν
taîs lopási(n)
Accusative τὴν λοπᾰ́δᾰ
tḕn lopáda		 τὼ λοπᾰ́δε
tṑ lopáde		 τᾱ̀ς λοπᾰ́δᾰς
tā̀s lopádas
Vocative λοπᾰ́ς
lopás		 λοπᾰ́δε
lopáde		 λοπᾰ́δες
lopádes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading
  • “λοπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “λοπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • λοπάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 871
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