κέλυφος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, connected with the group of καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”), with a Pre-Greek suffix.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ké.lyː.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈke.ly.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈce.ly.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈce.ly.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈce.li.fos/
Noun
κέλῡφος • (kélūphos) n (genitive κελῡ́φους); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κέλῡφος tò kélūphos |
τὼ κελῡ́φει tṑ kelū́phei |
τᾰ̀ κελῡ́φη tà kelū́phē | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κελῡ́φους toû kelū́phous |
τοῖν κελῡφοῖν toîn kelūphoîn |
τῶν κελῡφῶν tôn kelūphôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κελῡ́φει tôi kelū́phei |
τοῖν κελῡφοῖν toîn kelūphoîn |
τοῖς κελῡ́φεσῐ / κελῡ́φεσῐν toîs kelū́phesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κέλῡφος tò kélūphos |
τὼ κελῡ́φει tṑ kelū́phei |
τᾰ̀ κελῡ́φη tà kelū́phē | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κέλῡφος kélūphos |
κελῡ́φει kelū́phei |
κελῡ́φη kelū́phē | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κελῡφοκομεῖον (kelūphokomeîon)
- κελῡ́φᾰνον (kelū́phanon)
- κελῡφᾰνώδης (kelūphanṓdēs)
- κελῡ́φῐον (kelū́phion)
Descendants
- Greek: κέλυφος (kélyfos)
Further reading
- “κέλυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κέλυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κέλυφος 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
Greek
Noun
κέλυφος • (kélyfos) n (plural κελύφη)
Declension
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