ἐπουλίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Noun

ἐπουλῐ́ς • (epoulís) f (genitive ἐπουλῐ́δος); third declension

1. (medicine) A growth on the gum; an epulis.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἐπουλῐ́ς; τῆς ἐπουλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐπουλῐ́ς hē epoulís	τὼ ἐπουλῐ́δε tṑ epoulíde	αἱ ἐπουλῐ́δες hai epoulídes
Genitive	τῆς ἐπουλῐ́δος tês epoulídos	τοῖν ἐπουλῐ́δοιν toîn epoulídoin	τῶν ἐπουλῐ́δων tôn epoulídōn
Dative	τῇ ἐπουλῐ́δῐ têi epoulídi	τοῖν ἐπουλῐ́δοιν toîn epoulídoin	ταῖς ἐπουλῐ́σῐ / ἐπουλῐ́σῐν taîs epoulísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἐπουλῐ́δᾰ tḕn epoulída	τὼ ἐπουλῐ́δε tṑ epoulíde	τᾱ̀ς ἐπουλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s epoulídas
Vocative	ἐπουλῐ́ς epoulís	ἐπουλῐ́δε epoulíde	ἐπουλῐ́δες epoulídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Related terms

• δῠσεπούλωτος (dusepoúlōtos)
• ἔπουλος (époulos)
• ἐπουλόω (epoulóō)
• ἐπούλωσῐς (epoúlōsis)
• ἐπουλωτῐκός (epoulōtikós)
• σῠνεπουλόομαι (sunepoulóomai)
• σῠνεπούλωσῐς (sunepoúlōsis)

 

Descendants

• → New Latin: epūlis
  • → English: epulis

References

• “ἐπουλίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press