ὕπατος

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Superlative of ὑπό (hupó, under).

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

ῠ̔́πᾰτος (húpatosm (feminine ῠ̔πᾰ́τη, neuter ῠ̔́πᾰτον); first/second declension
ῠ̔́πᾰτος (húpatosm or f (neuter ῠ̔́πᾰτον); second declension

  1. highest, uppermost
    1. (of place) at the very top, lowest, furthest
    2. (of time) last
    3. (of quality) highest, best

Declension

Noun

ῠ̔́πᾰτος (húpatosm (genitive ὑπᾰ́του); second declension

  1. (Koine, Byzantine) consul (a head of government of the Roman Republic)
  2. (Byzantine) hypatos (title conferred by the Byzantine Empire as an honorific)

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Further reading

  • ὕπατος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὕπατος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ὕπατος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὕπατος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ὕπατος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ὕπατος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • 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