κυπρῖνος
See also: κύπρινος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Other names for this fish, like Sanskrit शफर (śaphara), Lithuanian šāpalas and Late Latin carpa, are not related. The suffix -ῖν- is well-known in Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ky.prîː.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kyˈpri.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cyˈpri.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cyˈpri.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈpri.nos/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κῠπρῖνος ho kuprînos |
τὼ κῠπρῑ́νω tṑ kuprī́nō |
οἱ κῠπρῖνοι hoi kuprînoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κῠπρῑ́νου toû kuprī́nou |
τοῖν κῠπρῑ́νοιν toîn kuprī́noin |
τῶν κῠπρῑ́νων tôn kuprī́nōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κῠπρῑ́νῳ tôi kuprī́nōi |
τοῖν κῠπρῑ́νοιν toîn kuprī́noin |
τοῖς κῠπρῑ́νοις toîs kuprī́nois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κῠπρῖνον tòn kuprînon |
τὼ κῠπρῑ́νω tṑ kuprī́nō |
τοὺς κῠπρῑ́νους toùs kuprī́nous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῠπρῖνε kuprîne |
κῠπρῑ́νω kuprī́nō |
κῠπρῖνοι kuprînoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κυπρῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κυπρῖνος 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
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