κύπειρον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κύπαιρος (kúpairos), κύπειρος (kúpeiros), κύπερος (kúperos)
Etymology
According to Beekes, a foreign Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ký.peː.ron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.pi.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈky.pi.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.pi.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.pi.ron/
Noun
κύπειρον • (kúpeiron) n (genitive κῠπείρου); second declension
- galingale (Cyperus longus)
- Synonym: ζέρνα (zérna)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κῠ́πειρον tò kúpeiron |
τὼ κῠπείρω tṑ kupeírō |
τᾰ̀ κῠ́πειρᾰ tà kúpeira | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κῠπείρου toû kupeírou |
τοῖν κῠπείροιν toîn kupeíroin |
τῶν κῠπείρων tôn kupeírōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κῠπείρῳ tôi kupeírōi |
τοῖν κῠπείροιν toîn kupeíroin |
τοῖς κῠπείροις toîs kupeírois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κῠ́πειρον tò kúpeiron |
τὼ κῠπείρω tṑ kupeírō |
τᾰ̀ κῠ́πειρᾰ tà kúpeira | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῠ́πειρον kúpeiron |
κῠπείρω kupeírō |
κῠ́πειρᾰ kúpeira | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κυπερίζω (kuperízō)
Further reading
- κύπειρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κύπειρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
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