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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From αἴξ (aíx, “goat”) + Proto-Indo-European *-kʷolos (“-herd”) (compare βουκόλος (boukólos, “cowherd”)), from *kʷel- (“to turn, cultivate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ai̯.pó.los/ → /ɛˈpo.los/ → /eˈpo.los/
Noun
αἰπόλος • (aipólos) m (genitive αἰπόλου); second declension
- goatherd
Usage notes
The quote from the Odyssey uses the pleonastic expression αἰπόλος αἰγῶν (aipólos aigôn, literally “goatherd of goats”).
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “αἰπόλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- αἰπόλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αἰπόλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 1 αἰπόλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “αἴπολος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αἰπόλος”, 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.