τροπαῖος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τροπή (tropḗ, “turn”) +‎ -αῖος (-aîos, adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tro.pâi̯.os/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /troˈpɛ.os/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /troˈpɛ.os/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /troˈpe.os/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /troˈpe.os/

Adjective

τροπαῖος • (tropaîos) m (feminine τροπαίᾱ, neuter τροπαῖον); first/second declension

of a turning or change
of or for defeat
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 402
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 143
- c. 450 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 303
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 867
- Inscriptiones Graecae 173
1. causing rout
  - c. 415 BCE, Euripides, Electra 469
turning away, averting
- c. 450 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 303

Inflection

First and second declension of τροπαῖος; τροπαίᾱ; τροπαῖον (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	τροπαῖος tropaîos	τροπαίᾱ tropaíā	τροπαῖον tropaîon	τροπαίω tropaíō	τροπαίᾱ tropaíā	τροπαίω tropaíō	τροπαῖοι tropaîoi	τροπαῖαι tropaîai	τροπαῖᾰ tropaîă
Genitive	τροπαίου tropaíou	τροπαίᾱς tropaíās	τροπαίου tropaíou	τροπαίοιν tropaíoin	τροπαίαιν tropaíain	τροπαίοιν tropaíoin	τροπαίων tropaíōn	τροπαίων tropaíōn	τροπαίων tropaíōn
Dative	τροπαίῳ tropaíōi	τροπαίᾳ tropaíāi	τροπαίῳ tropaíōi	τροπαίοιν tropaíoin	τροπαίαιν tropaíain	τροπαίοιν tropaíoin	τροπαίοις tropaíois	τροπαίαις tropaíais	τροπαίοις tropaíois
Accusative	τροπαῖον tropaîon	τροπαίᾱν tropaíān	τροπαῖον tropaîon	τροπαίω tropaíō	τροπαίᾱ tropaíā	τροπαίω tropaíō	τροπαίους tropaíous	τροπαίᾱς tropaíās	τροπαῖᾰ tropaîă
Vocative	τροπαῖε tropaîe	τροπαίᾱ tropaíā	τροπαῖον tropaîon	τροπαίω tropaíō	τροπαίᾱ tropaíā	τροπαίω tropaíō	τροπαῖοι tropaîoi	τροπαῖαι tropaîai	τροπαῖᾰ tropaîă
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	τροπαίως tropaíōs			τροπαιότερος tropaióteros			τροπαιότᾰτος tropaiótătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

(turning away): ἀποτρόπαιος (apotrópaios)

Derived terms

τρόπαιον (trópaion)

Descendants

Latin: tropaeus

References

“τροπαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“τροπαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“τροπαῖος” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- averting idem, page 55.
- rout idem, page 723.