Ancient Greek

Noun

γρύψ • ‎(grúps) m ‎(genitive γρυπός); third declension

1. griffin
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.116, (compare Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 395)

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: gryps

References

• γρύψ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γρύψ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «γρύψ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «γρύψ» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • griffin idem, page 373.
  • gryphon idem, page 376.
• 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
• Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language