Ἔμπουσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A folk etymology construes the name to mean "one-footed", from ἕν (hén) +‎ πούς (poús, “foot”). However, as Beekes notes, the word is probably Pre-Greek in view of the suffix -ουσα; compare ἄγχουσα (ánkhousa), αἴθουσα (aíthousa), κάδουσα (kádousa) and νήθουσα (nḗthousa).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ἔμπουσᾰ • (Émpousa) f (genitive Ἐμπούσης); first declension

  1. (mythology) Empusa, kind of one-legged spectre assuming various shapes, said to be sent by Hecate

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Ἔμπουσᾰ; τῆς Ἐμπούσης (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ἔμπουσᾰ
hē Émpousa
Genitive τῆς Ἐμπούσης
tês Empoúsēs
Dative τῇ Ἐμπούσῃ
têi Empoúsēi
Accusative τὴν Ἔμπουσᾰν
tḕn Émpousan
Vocative Ἔμπουσᾰ
Émpousa
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • → English: empusa, empousa
  • Greek: Έμπουσα (Émpousa)
  • → Latin: Empūsa
  • → Translingual: Empusa

Further reading
  • “Ἔμπουσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ἔμπουσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Ἔμπουσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Ἔμπουσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 419
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