Ἔφεσος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Luwian Apa-ša ("later-city"), cognates with ἐπί ("on, over").
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.pʰe.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.pʰe.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.ɸe.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.fe.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.fe.sos/
Proper noun
Ἔφεσος • (Éphesos) f (genitive Ἐφέσου); second declension
Inflection
Derived terms
- Ἐφεσήϊα (Ephesḗïa)
- Ἐφεσηοκίκης (Ephesēokíkēs)
- Ἐφεσία (Ephesía)
- Ἐφέσιος (Ephésios)
- Ἐφεσίς (Ephesís)
Descendants
- Greek: Έφεσος (Éfesos)
- → Armenian: Եփեսոս (Epʻesos)
- → Latin: Ephesus
- → Ottoman Turkish: افس (efes)
- Turkish: Efes
Further reading
- “Ἔφεσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G2181 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, page 1,009