ὀρθόπνοια

Ancient Greek

From ὀρθός (orthós, “straight, upright”) + πνέω (pnéō, “breathe”).

ὀρθόπνοιᾰ • (orthópnoiă) f (genitive ὀρθοπνοίᾱς); first declension

upright breathing, orthopnoea, a type of asthma which only admits breathing in an upright posture
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prognostics 45
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Regimen in Acute Diseases 386

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀρθόπνοιᾰ hē orthópnoiă	τὼ ὀρθοπνοίᾱ tṑ orthopnoíā	αἱ ὀρθόπνοιαι hai orthópnoiai
Genitive	τῆς ὀρθοπνοίᾱς tês orthopnoíās	τοῖν ὀρθοπνοίαιν toîn orthopnoíain	τῶν ὀρθοπνοιῶν tôn orthopnoiôn
Dative	τῇ ὀρθοπνοίᾳ têi orthopnoíāi	τοῖν ὀρθοπνοίαιν toîn orthopnoíain	ταῖς ὀρθοπνοίαις taîs orthopnoíais
Accusative	τὴν ὀρθόπνοιᾰν tḕn orthópnoiăn	τὼ ὀρθοπνοίᾱ tṑ orthopnoíā	τᾱ̀ς ὀρθοπνοίᾱς tā̀s orthopnoíās
Vocative	ὀρθόπνοιᾰ orthópnoiă	ὀρθοπνοίᾱ orthopnoíā	ὀρθόπνοιαι orthópnoiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.