κυπάρισσος

See also: Κυπάρισσος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κῠπᾰ́ρῐττος (kupárittos) – Attic

Etymology

Probably from an unknown Mediterranean Pre-Greek language; see Hebrew גפר‎ (gopher), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.pá.ris.sos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈpa.ris.sos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kyˈpa.ris.sos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈpa.ris.sos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈpa.ri.sos/

Noun

κῠπᾰ́ρῐσσος • (kupárissos) f (genitive κῠπᾰρῐ́σσου); second declension

cypress
cypress wood

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠπᾰ́ρῐσσος; τοῦ κῠπᾰρῐ́σσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠπᾰ́ρῐσσος ho kupárissos	τὼ κῠπᾰρῐ́σσω tṑ kuparíssō	οἱ κῠπᾰ́ρῐσσοι hoi kupárissoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠπᾰρῐ́σσου toû kuparíssou	τοῖν κῠπᾰρῐ́σσοιν toîn kuparíssoin	τῶν κῠπᾰρῐ́σσων tôn kuparíssōn
Dative	τῷ κῠπᾰρῐ́σσῳ tôi kuparíssōi	τοῖν κῠπᾰρῐ́σσοιν toîn kuparíssoin	τοῖς κῠπᾰρῐ́σσοις toîs kuparíssois
Accusative	τὸν κῠπᾰ́ρῐσσον tòn kupárisson	τὼ κῠπᾰρῐ́σσω tṑ kuparíssō	τοὺς κῠπᾰρῐ́σσους toùs kuparíssous
Vocative	κῠπᾰ́ρῐσσε kupárisse	κῠπᾰρῐ́σσω kuparíssō	κῠπᾰ́ρῐσσοι kupárissoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

French: cyprès
Italian: cipresso
Norman: cyprès (Jersey)
Russian: кипари́с m (kiparís)

References

κυπάρισσος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κυπάρισσος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κυπάρισσος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
κυπάρισσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
κυπάρισσος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
κυπάρισσος 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cypress idem, page 193.

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