κρώπιον

Ancient Greek

The traditional derivation from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to pluck, to harvest”) (whence Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”), Sanskrit कृपाण (kṛpāṇa, “sword”), Lithuanian kir̃pti (“to cut off, shave”), Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest”), Latin carpō (“I pluck”)) is highly unlikely in view of both the root vocalism and the consonant alternation π ~ β (p ~ b).^[1] Likely Pre-Greek; compare Hurrian [script needed] (hurubbi).^[2]

κρώπῐον • (krṓpĭon) n (genitive κρωπῐ́ου); second declension

Second declension of τὸ κρώπῐον; τοῦ κρωπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρώπῐον tò krṓpĭon	τὼ κρωπῐ́ω tṑ krōpĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κρώπῐᾰ tằ krṓpĭă
Genitive	τοῦ κρωπῐ́ου toû krōpĭ́ou	τοῖν κρωπῐ́οιν toîn krōpĭ́oin	τῶν κρωπῐ́ων tôn krōpĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ κρωπῐ́ῳ tōî krōpĭ́ōi	τοῖν κρωπῐ́οιν toîn krōpĭ́oin	τοῖς κρωπῐ́οις toîs krōpĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ κρώπῐον tò krṓpĭon	τὼ κρωπῐ́ω tṑ krōpĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κρώπῐᾰ tằ krṓpĭă
Vocative	κρώπῐον krṓpĭon	κρωπῐ́ω krōpĭ́ō	κρώπῐᾰ krṓpĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ 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, page 788
^ Furnée, Edzard Johan (1972) Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen (Janua linguarum. Series practica; 150) (in German), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 148