Ἰνωπός

Ancient Greek

Perhaps a combination of the same root as ἰνόω (inóō, “make strong; flow, pour”) and Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”).

Ἰ̄νωπός • (Īnōpós) m (genitive Ἰ̄νωποῦ); second declension

a fountain and river in the island of Delos, where Leto brought forth Apollo and Artemis (It is said to have risen and fallen at the same time with the Nile, and hence was supposed to be connected with it by a subterranean channel.)
a building at the source of the river

Second declension of ὁ Ἰ̄νωπός; τοῦ Ἰ̄νωποῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἰ̄νωπός ho Īnōpós
Genitive	τοῦ Ἰ̄νωποῦ toû Īnōpoû
Dative	τῷ Ἰ̄νωπῷ tôi Īnōpôi
Accusative	τὸν Ἰ̄νωπόν tòn Īnōpón
Vocative	Ἰ̄νωπέ Īnōpé
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Ἰνωπός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Ἰνωπός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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