κάπη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kápā, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to seize, to understand, to grasp”), the same root of κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κᾰ́πη • (kápē) f (genitive κᾰ́πης); first declension

  1. crib, manger
    Synonym: φάτνη (phátnē)

Inflection
First declension of ἡ κᾰ́πη; τῆς κᾰ́πης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ κᾰ́πη
hē kápē		 τὼ κᾰ́πᾱ
tṑ kápā		 αἱ κᾰ́παι
hai kápai
Genitive τῆς κᾰ́πης
tês kápēs		 τοῖν κᾰ́παιν
toîn kápain		 τῶν κᾰπῶν
tôn kapôn
Dative τῇ κᾰ́πῃ
têi kápēi		 τοῖν κᾰ́παιν
toîn kápain		 ταῖς κᾰ́παις
taîs kápais
Accusative τὴν κᾰ́πην
tḕn kápēn		 τὼ κᾰ́πᾱ
tṑ kápā		 τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́πᾱς
tā̀s kápās
Vocative κᾰ́πη
kápē		 κᾰ́πᾱ
kápā		 κᾰ́παι
kápai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading
  • “κάπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κάπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κάπη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κάπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κάπη 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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