Ἀσωπός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps a combination of the same root as ἄσις (ásis, “slime, mud”) and Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”). Compare Ancient Greek Ἰνωπός (Inōpós).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ᾱ̓σωπός • (Āsōpós) m (genitive Ᾱ̓σωποῦ); second declension

  1. Asopus

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Ᾱ̓σωπός; τοῦ Ᾱ̓σωποῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Ᾱ̓σωπός
ho Āsōpós
Genitive τοῦ Ᾱ̓σωποῦ
toû Āsōpoû
Dative τῷ Ᾱ̓σωπῷ
tôi Āsōpôi
Accusative τὸν Ᾱ̓σωπόν
tòn Āsōpón
Vocative Ᾱ̓σωπέ
Āsōpé
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: Ασωπός (Asopós)
  • → Latin: Āsōpus

Further reading
  • Ἀσωπός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Ἀσωπός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
  • Ἀσωπός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003
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