κοπέλα

Greek

Etymology

Initial meaning ‘maid, stepdaughter’, feminine of Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos, “servant, stepson”), from South Proto-Slavic *kopylъ ‘shoot, sprout; bastard’ (compare Serbo-Croatian kȍpile, Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele); cf. also Albanian kopil (“bastard”), Romanian copilă (“child, girl”)).

Noun

κοπέλα • (kopéla) f (plural κοπέλες)

  1. young adult woman
  2. girlfriend

Declension

Declension of κοπέλα
singular plural
nominative κοπέλα (kopéla) κοπέλες (kopéles)
genitive κοπέλας (kopélas) —
accusative κοπέλα (kopéla) κοπέλες (kopéles)
vocative κοπέλα (kopéla) κοπέλες (kopéles)

Synonyms

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