ταπεινός

Has been connected with Old Norse þefja (“to stamp”) and þōf (“crowd”) but this theory is not convincing. Probably from Pre-Greek.

τᾰπεινός • (tapeinós) m (feminine τᾰπεινή, neuter τᾰπεινόν); first/second declension

1. low
   1. low-lying (of place)
   2. humbled, abased in power, pride; submissive; small, poor, weak (of persons)
   3. downcast, dejected (of the mood)
   4. (bad in a moral sense): mean, base, abject
   5. (good in a moral sense): lowly, humble
   6. mean, low, poor (of things)

• ἄβδελλον (ábdellon)

• “ταπεινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ταπεινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ταπεινός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ταπεινός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5011 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abject idem, page 2.
  • base idem, page 64.
  • contrite idem, page 170.
  • cowering idem, page 181.
  • cringing idem, page 184.
  • degraded idem, page 206.
  • degrading idem, page 206.
  • deprecating idem, page 213.
  • grovelling idem, page 375.
  • humble idem, page 409.
  • inglorious idem, page 440.
  • low idem, page 502.
  • low-born idem, page 503.
  • lowly idem, page 503.
  • mean idem, page 519.
  • obscure idem, page 566.
  • obsequious idem, page 566.
  • patient idem, page 598.
  • penitent idem, page 603.
  • plebeian idem, page 620.
  • repentant idem, page 696.
  • subdued idem, page 830.
  • submissive idem, page 831.
  • subservient idem, page 832.
  • suppliant idem, page 840.
  • unambitious idem, page 906.
  • unaspiring idem, page 907.
  • unassuming idem, page 907.
  • ungentle idem, page 919.
  • vile idem, page 952.
• 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