COMPOUND: ἀμφίπολος, -ου 
CATEGORIZATION: N [P+V+Suf]
MEANING: ‘waiting-woman’
ETYMOLOGY: ἀμφί ‘on both sides’ + verbal root πολ- (*k^wel-, πέλομαι,  *k^wol , θεοπόλος, βουκόλος) ‘moving around > being into, working with, in’ + noun. suf. -ος, -ου
OCCURRENCE: Il. III, 143, 422; VI, 286, 372, 399, 491, 499; XVIII, 417; XXII, 442, 461; XXIV, 302, 304; Od. I, 136, 191, 331, 335, 357, 362; IV, 52, 751, 760; VI, 53, 80, 109, 198, 209, 217, 218, 238, 239, 246, 260, 320, 324; VII, 172, 232, 235, 290, 300, 304, 335; IX, 206, X, 348, 368; XII, 18; XV, 135; XVI, 152, 413; XVII, 49, 91, 290; XVIII, 198, 207, 211, 303; XIX, 90, 317, 514, 601, 602; XXI, 8, 61, 66, 351, 356; XXII, 483; XXIII, 227, 364; XXIV, 366.
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: nom. f. (target gender) sg., dat. sg., acc. sg. nom. pl., gen. pl., dat. pl., acc. pl.
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: Adjectival formation but attested only as a substantive in Hom. The second member is attested as a free word in Greek with the different meanings ‘pole’, ‘axis of the celestial sphere’, etc.