ἤπιος

According to Van Beek, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂pyos (“friendly”). Cognate with Sanskrit आपि (āpí, “ally, friend, confederate”), आप्य (ā́pya, “kind, friendly”).

ἤπῐος • (ḗpios) m (feminine ἠπῐ́ᾱ, neuter ἤπῐον); first/second declension

1. gentle, kind (of persons, of words, of feelings)
2. mild, less intense (of temperature)
3. soothing, assuaging, appeasing

• Greek: ήπιος (ípios)

• “ἤπιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἤπιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἤπιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἤπιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἤπιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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