κάλπις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Without a certain explanation. Often connected with Breton kelorn (“bucket”) but this does not explain the -α-. Furnée connects it with Ancient Greek κελέβη (kelébē), for which there seems no reason. Possibly from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κᾰ́λπῐς • (kálpis) f (genitive κᾰ́λπῐδος); third declension

  1. pitcher
  2. kind of cup
  3. box for unguents
  4. urn for drawing lots
  5. cinerary urn

Declension
Third declension of ἡ κᾰ́λπῐς; τῆς κᾰ́λπῐδος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ κᾰ́λπῐς
hē kálpis		 τὼ κᾰ́λπῐδε
tṑ kálpide		 αἱ κᾰ́λπῐδες
hai kálpides
Genitive τῆς κᾰ́λπῐδος
tês kálpidos		 τοῖν κᾰλπῐ́δοιν
toîn kalpídoin		 τῶν κᾰλπῐ́δων
tôn kalpídōn
Dative τῇ κᾰ́λπῐδῐ
têi kálpidi		 τοῖν κᾰλπῐ́δοιν
toîn kalpídoin		 ταῖς κᾰ́λπῐσῐ / κᾰ́λπῐσῐν
taîs kálpisi(n)
Accusative τὴν κᾰ́λπῐδᾰ
tḕn kálpida		 τὼ κᾰ́λπῐδε
tṑ kálpide		 τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́λπῐδᾰς
tā̀s kálpidas
Vocative κᾰ́λπῐς
kálpis		 κᾰ́λπῐδε
kálpide		 κᾰ́λπῐδες
kálpides
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms
  • κᾰλποφόρος (kalpophóros)
  • κᾰ́λπῐον (kálpion)

Descendants
  • → English: kalpis

Further reading
  • “κάλπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κάλπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κάλπις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κάλπις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κάλπις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • 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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