καρπός

From Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“pluck, harvest”); see also West Frisian hjerst, Dutch herfst, German Herbst, Middle Low German hervest (“autumn”) (Dutch Low Saxon haarfst (“autumn”)), Danish høst, Latin carpō (“to pick”), and κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”).

κᾰρπός • (karpós) m (genitive κᾰρποῦ); second declension

(Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric, Koine)

1. fruit, grain, produce, harvest
2. the product of something: children (fruit of the body), poetry (fruit of the mind), profit

• χρῡσόκᾰρπος (khrūsókarpos)

• → Aromanian: carpo
• → Coptic: ⲕⲁⲣⲡⲟⲥ (karpos)
• Greek: καρπός (karpós)
• → Turkish: karpuz

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷerp- (“to turn”); if so, related to Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”) (English wharf).

κᾰρπός • (karpós) m (genitive κᾰρποῦ); second declension

1. wrist

• Greek: καρπός (karpós)
• New Latin: carpus
  • English: carpus

• καρπός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καρπός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καρπός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καρπός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• καρπός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• καρπός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• καρπός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2590 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.
  • cereals idem, page 122.
  • corn idem, page 174.
  • crop idem, page 185.
  • fruit idem, page 347.
  • harvest idem, page 387.
  • produce idem, page 644.
  • standing idem, page 811.
  • wrist idem, page 993.
  • yield idem, page 996.
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume I, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill

From Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (karpós, “fruit, grain”).

καρπός • (karpós) m (plural καρποί)

1. fruit, grain

• see: ακαρπία f (akarpía, “fruitlessness, barrenness”)

From Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

καρπός • (karpós) m (plural καρποί)

1. (anatomy) wrist

• φρούτο (froúto, “fruit”)