Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄρπετον ‎(órpeton) (Aeolic)

Noun

ἑρπετόν • ‎(herpetón) n ‎(genitive ἑρπετοῦ); second declension

1. Any animal which walks on four legs.
2. creeping animal, reptile, especially a snake
3. living being

Inflection

Related terms

• ἕρπω ‎(hérpō)

Descendants

• English: herpet-
• Greek: ερπετό ‎(erpetó)
• Spanish: herpetología

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • insect idem, page 444.
  • reptile idem, page 699.
  • serpent idem, page 755.
  • snake idem, page 788.
  • vermin idem, page 948.
  • worm idem, page 990.