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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῠ̔́ψῐ (húpsi, “aloft”), probably related to ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hýp.sos/ → /ˈyp.sos/ → /ˈip.sos/
Noun
ῠ̔́ψος • (húpsos) n (genitive ῠ̔́ψεος or ῠ̔́ψους); third declension
- height
- the top, summit
- high position: grandeur
- pride
Inflection
Derived terms
- ὑψόθεν (hupsóthen)
- ὑψόω (hupsóō, “lift up, elevate”)
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “ὕψος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὕψος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὕψος 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
- G5311 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.
- “ὕψος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011