Κύπρος

Unknown; possibly from a Pre-Greek language, according to Beekes.

• One suggestion derives it from the Greek word for the Mediterranean cypress (Cupressus sempervirens, κυπάρισσος), or from the Greek word for the plant henna (Lawsonia alba, κύπρος).
• Another suggestion says Cyprus owes its name to the King Cyprus, whose daughter Eune married Teucer (son of Telamon the king of Salamis) when he came to exile after the Trojan war and founded the city of Salamis in Cyprus.
• Georges Dossin suggests that the roots of the word are in the Sumerian word for copper ([script needed] (zubar)) or bronze ([script needed] (kubar)), from the large copper reserves on the island, but Beekes states the similarity is accidental.
• More ancient etymologies about the origin of the island's name are given by Stephanus of Byzantium in his work Ἐθνικά[1]

Κῠ́προς • (Kúpros) f (genitive Κῠ́πρου); second declension

1. Cyprus

• Κῠ́πρῐος (Kúprios)
• κῠ́πρῐος (kúprios)
• κῠπρῐ́ς (kuprís)
• κῠπρογενής (kuprogenḗs)
• κῠπρογένεια (kuprogéneia)
• κῠπρογένηα (kuprogénēa)
• κῠπρόθε (kupróthe)
• κῠπρόθεν (kupróthen)
• κῠ́προνδε (kúpronde)

• → Latin: cuprum

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “Κύπρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 805
• Κύπρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Κύπρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Κύπρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Κύπρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2954 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Cyprus idem, page 1007.
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007

From Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros).

Κύπρος • (Kýpros) f

1. Cyprus

• Κύπριος m (Kýprios, “Cypriot”), Κυπριώτης m (Kypriótis, “Cypriot”)
• Κύπρια f (Kýpria, “female Cypriot”), Κυπριώτισσα f (Kypriótissa, “female Cypriot”)
• κυπριακά n pl (kypriaká, “Cypriot dialect”), κυπριώτικα n pl (kypriótika, “Cypriot dialect”)
• κυπριακός (kypriakós, “Cypriot”, adjective)

In the Cypriot dialect:

• Κυπραίος m (Kypraíos, “Cypriot”)
• Κυπραία f (Kypraía, “female Cypriot”)
• κυπραίικα n pl (kypraíika, “Cypriot dialect”)
• κυπραίος m (kypraíos, “Cypriot”, adjective)

• Κύπρος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el