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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Substantivized verbal adjective of ἕρπω (hérpō). Compare Sanskrit सर्प (sarpá, “snake, serpent”), Latin serpēns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /her.pe.tón/ → /er.peˈton/ → /er.peˈton/
Noun
ἑρπετόν • (herpetón) n (genitive ἑρπετοῦ); second declension
- Any animal which walks on four legs.
- creeping animal, reptile, especially a snake
- living being
Usage notes
- Along with ᾠόν (ōión), λουτρόν (loutrón), πτερόν (pterón) and ζυγόν (zugón), this is one of the very few neuter nouns that does not have a recessive accent.
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Further reading
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἑρπετόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “ἑρπετόν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2062 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.