κάπρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kápros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱapros (“male hooved animal”), possibly from *ḱapr̥ (“penis”). Cognate with Latin caper (“goat”), Old Irish gabor (“goat”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κᾰ́προς • (kápros) m (genitive κᾰ́πρου); second declension

  1. boar, especially wild boar
  2. boarfish (Capros aper)

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κᾰ́προς; τοῦ κᾰ́πρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κᾰ́προς
ho kápros		 τὼ κᾰ́πρω
tṑ káprō		 οἱ κᾰ́προι
hoi káproi
Genitive τοῦ κᾰ́πρου
toû káprou		 τοῖν κᾰ́προιν
toîn káproin		 τῶν κᾰ́πρων
tôn káprōn
Dative τῷ κᾰ́πρῳ
tôi káprōi		 τοῖν κᾰ́προιν
toîn káproin		 τοῖς κᾰ́προις
toîs káprois
Accusative τὸν κᾰ́προν
tòn kápron		 τὼ κᾰ́πρω
tṑ káprō		 τοὺς κᾰ́πρους
toùs káprous
Vocative κᾰ́πρε
kápre		 κᾰ́πρω
káprō		 κᾰ́προι
káproi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • → Translingual: Capros

Further reading
  • “κάπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κάπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κάπρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κάπρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κάπρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “κάπρος”, 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.
    • boar idem, page 86.
    • hog idem, page 402.

Greek

Noun

κάπρος • (kápros) m (plural κάπροι)

  1. wild boar
  2. boar, male pig

Declension
declension of κάπρος
case     \     number singular plural
nominative κάπρος • κάπροι •
genitive κάπρου • κάπρων •
accusative κάπρο • κάπρους •
vocative κάπρε • κάπροι •

Synonyms

See also

Further reading
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