ὡροσκοπεῖον

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 6 March 2024

From ὥρα (hṓra, “hour”) +‎ σκοπέω (skopéō, “view”).

ὡροσκοπεῖον • (hōroskopeîon) n (genitive ὡροσκοπείου); second declension

an instrument for telling the time, clock, sundial
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 119
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Praeparatio Evangelica 556C
horoscope
- 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 5.70

Second declension of τὸ ὡροσκοπεῖον; τοῦ ὡροσκοπείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὡροσκοπεῖον tò hōroskopeîon	τὼ ὡροσκοπείω tṑ hōroskopeíō	τᾰ̀ ὡροσκοπεῖᾰ tà hōroskopeîa
Genitive	τοῦ ὡροσκοπείου toû hōroskopeíou	τοῖν ὡροσκοπείοιν toîn hōroskopeíoin	τῶν ὡροσκοπείων tôn hōroskopeíōn
Dative	τῷ ὡροσκοπείῳ tôi hōroskopeíōi	τοῖν ὡροσκοπείοιν toîn hōroskopeíoin	τοῖς ὡροσκοπείοις toîs hōroskopeíois
Accusative	τὸ ὡροσκοπεῖον tò hōroskopeîon	τὼ ὡροσκοπείω tṑ hōroskopeíō	τᾰ̀ ὡροσκοπεῖᾰ tà hōroskopeîa
Vocative	ὡροσκοπεῖον hōroskopeîon	ὡροσκοπείω hōroskopeíō	ὡροσκοπεῖᾰ hōroskopeîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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