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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἕπομαι (hépomai, “to follow”) + -της (-tēs, agentive suffix).
Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀤𐀲 (e-qe-ta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /he.pé.tɛːs/ → /eˈpe.tis/ → /eˈpe.tis/
Noun
ἑπέτης • (hepétēs) m (genitive ἑπέτου); first declension (Attic, Ionic)
- follower, attendant
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἑπέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑπέτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- ἑπέτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette