Ancient Greek

Noun

ἄμπελος • ‎(ámpelos) f ‎(genitive ἀμπέλου); second declension

1. vine
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 4.181
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 3.17.4
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.110
   • 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 44
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.195
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 4.4.11
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.90
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.2
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 9.52
2. a vineyard
   • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 11.32
3. an engine for protecting besiegers, mantlet
   • 100 CE – 200 CE, Apollodorus of Damascus, Siege Engines 141.7

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀμπέλιον ‎(ampélion)
• ἄμπελος ἀγρία ‎(ámpelos agría)
• ἄμπελος λευκή ‎(ámpelos leukḗ) (Bryonia cretica, bryony)
• ἄμπελος μέλαινα ‎(ámpelos mélaina) (Tamus communis ⇒ Dioscorea communis, black bryony)
• ἄμπελος ποντία ‎(ámpelos pontía) (Fucus volubilis?, wrack, probably some species of Fucus)

Descendants

• Greek: άμπελος ‎(ámpelos)
• Latin: ampelos

References

• ἄμπελος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄμπελος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄμπελος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἄμπελος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄμπελος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἄμπελος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἄμπελος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G288”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «ἄμπελος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • vine idem, page 953.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 91