ὑπάτου (hypatou)

ὑπάτου is an Ancient Greek form of ὕπατος, meaning “highest, uppermost”. It is the genitive singular masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of Ὕπατος, “Hypatos — the most high, occurs not only as an epithet of Zeus in poetry, but as a real surname of the god”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 93 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.553: αὐτὰρ ὅγʼ ἐξ ὑπάτου ὄρεος κίεν ἄγχι θαλάσσης

Strabo, Geography 9.2.31: … ίον Τευμησσοῦ καὶ τῆς Καδμείας, ᾧ ὑποπίπτει τὸ Ἀόνιον καλούμενον πεδίον, ὃ διατείνει εἰς τὴν Καδμείαν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ὑπάτου ὄρους.

All forms of ὕπατος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.