καπέτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Persian *kapiča- (literally “holder, something containing”),[1] whence also καπίθη (kapíthē), so a connection with κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”) is improbable. Others reference Sanskrit कपटी (kapaṭī, “two handfuls”), while Frisk refers to Classical Persian (kawīz, “qafiz”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.pé.tis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈpe.tis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpe.tis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpe.tis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈpe.tis/

Noun

κᾰπέτῐς • (kapétis) f (genitive κᾰπέτῐος); third declension

Persian measure, corresponding to ¹⁄₄₈ of the ἀρτάβη (artábē)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κᾰπέτῐς; τῆς κᾰπέτῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰπέτῐς hē kapétis	τὼ κᾰπέτῐε tṑ kapétie	αἱ κᾰπέτῐες hai kapéties
Genitive	τῆς κᾰπέτῐος tês kapétios	τοῖν κᾰπετῐ́οιν toîn kapetíoin	τῶν κᾰπετῐ́ων tôn kapetíōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰπέτῑ têi kapétī	τοῖν κᾰπετῐ́οιν toîn kapetíoin	ταῖς κᾰπέτῐσῐ / κᾰπέτῐσῐν taîs kapétisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰπέτῐν tḕn kapétin	τὼ κᾰπέτῐε tṑ kapétie	τᾱ̀ς κᾰπέτῑς / κᾰπέτῐᾰς tā̀s kapétīs / kapétias
Vocative	κᾰπέτῐ kapéti	κᾰπέτῐε kapétie	κᾰπέτῐες kapéties
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“καπέτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
καπέτις 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

Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 449

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[1] Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 449