κάπη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kápā, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to seize, to understand, to grasp”), the same root of κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.pɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.pe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.pi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.pi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.pi/
Noun
κᾰ́πη • (kắpē) f (genitive κᾰ́πης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κᾰ́πη hē kắpē |
τὼ κᾰ́πᾱ tṑ kắpā |
αἱ κᾰ́παι hai kắpai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κᾰ́πης tês kắpēs |
τοῖν κᾰ́παιν toîn kắpain |
τῶν κᾰπῶν tôn kăpôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κᾰ́πῃ tēî kắpēi |
τοῖν κᾰ́παιν toîn kắpain |
ταῖς κᾰ́παις taîs kắpais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κᾰ́πην tḕn kắpēn |
τὼ κᾰ́πᾱ tṑ kắpā |
τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́πᾱς tā̀s kắpās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰ́πη kắpē |
κᾰ́πᾱ kắpā |
κᾰ́παι kắpai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κάπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κάπη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κάπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάπη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN