ἅπας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἁ- (ha-, “together”) +‎ πᾶς (pâs, “all”).

Pronunciation

Determiner

ᾰ̔́πᾱς • (hápās) m (feminine ᾰ̔́πᾱσᾰ, neuter ᾰ̔́πᾰν); first/third declension

1. quite all, the whole (in the plural) all together
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.1
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.91
   1. (with an adjective) all
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.616
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.116
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 35
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 909
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 15.19
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 15.148
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 317B
   2. (with an abstract substantive) all possible, absolute
      • 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 171
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.23
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 39.1.7
      • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 7.15.8
2. (after Homer, in the singular) everyone, (neuter) everything
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 108B
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.153
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 312
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 807
   • 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 528
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 241B
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.103
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, On Salaried Posts in Great Houses 41
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.185
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.49
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 2.56
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 493

Inflection

Descendants

• ⇒ Greek: άπας (ápas)

References

• “ἅπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἅπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἅπας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἅπας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἅπας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἅπας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἅπας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G537 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • all idem, page 22.
  • entire idem, page 277.
  • livelong idem, page 496.
  • total idem, page 884.
  • whole idem, page 977.
• 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, →ISBN