κάπρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kápros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱapros (“male hooved animal”), possibly from *ḱapr̥ (“penis”). Cognate with Latin caper (“goat”), Old Irish gabor (“goat”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κᾰ́προς • (kắpros) m (genitive κᾰ́πρου); second declension

  1. boar, especially wild boar
  2. boarfish (Capros aper)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κᾰ́προς; τοῦ κᾰ́πρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κᾰ́προς
ho kắpros 		τὼ κᾰ́πρω
tṑ kắprō 		οἱ κᾰ́προι
hoi kắproi
Genitive τοῦ κᾰ́πρου
toû kắprou 		τοῖν κᾰ́προιν
toîn kắproin 		τῶν κᾰ́πρων
tôn kắprōn
Dative τῷ κᾰ́πρῳ
tōî kắprōi 		τοῖν κᾰ́προιν
toîn kắproin 		τοῖς κᾰ́προις
toîs kắprois
Accusative τὸν κᾰ́προν
tòn kắpron 		τὼ κᾰ́πρω
tṑ kắprō 		τοὺς κᾰ́πρους
toùs kắprous
Vocative κᾰ́πρε
kắpre 		κᾰ́πρω
kắprō 		κᾰ́προι
kắproi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • → Translingual: Capros

Further reading

  • “κάπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κάπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κάπρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κάπρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κάπρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “κάπρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • boar idem, page 86.
    • hog idem, page 402.

Greek

Noun

κάπρος • (kápros) m (plural κάπροι)

  1. wild boar
  2. boar, male pig

Declension

Declension of κάπρος
singular plural
nominative κάπρος (kápros) κάπροι (káproi)
genitive κάπρου (káprou) κάπρων (kápron)
accusative κάπρο (kápro) κάπρους (káprous)
vocative κάπρε (kápre) κάπροι (káproi)

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Further reading

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