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ἐλπίς
ἐλπίς
Ancient Greek
Noun
ἐλπίς • (elpís) f (genitive ἐλπίδος); third declension
- hope, expectation
- object of hope
- anxiety, boding
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐλπίς | τὼ ἐλπῖδε | αἱ ἐλπῖδες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐλπῖδος | τοῖν ἐλπίδοιν | τῶν ἐλπίδων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐλπῖδῐ | τοῖν ἐλπίδοιν | ταῖς ἐλπῖσῐ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐλπῖδᾰ | τὼ ἐλπῖδε | τᾱ̀ς ἐλπῖδᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐλπίς | ἐλπῖδε | ἐλπῖδες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Greek: ελπίδα (elpída)
References
- ἐλπίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐλπίς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐλπίς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ἐλπίς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἐλπίς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G1680”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- anticipation idem, page 32.
- aspiration idem, page 45.
- comfort idem, page 145.
- expectation idem, page 293.
- hope idem, page 405.
- hopefulness idem, page 405.
- promise idem, page 653.
- prospect idem, page 653.
- solace idem, page 792.
- BDAG