κάππαρις
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The word has been connected with Persian کبر (kabar, “caper”) and Burushaski [script needed] (čopuri)[1] (a language isolate), suggesting an Oriental origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /káp.pa.ris/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkap.pa.ris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkap.pa.ris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkap.pa.ris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.pa.ris/
Noun
[edit]κάππαρις • (kápparis) f (genitive καππάρεως); third declension
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κάππαρῐς hē kápparis |
τὼ καππάρει tṑ kappárei |
αἱ καππάρεις hai kappáreis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς καππάρεως tês kappáreōs |
τοῖν καππαρέοιν toîn kapparéoin |
τῶν καππάρεων tôn kappáreōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ καππάρει têi kappárei |
τοῖν καππαρέοιν toîn kapparéoin |
ταῖς καππάρεσῐ / καππάρεσῐν taîs kappáresi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κάππαρῐν tḕn kápparin |
τὼ καππάρει tṑ kappárei |
τᾱ̀ς καππάρεις tā̀s kappáreis | ||||||||||
Vocative | κάππαρῐ káppari |
καππάρει kappárei |
καππάρεις kappáreis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάππαρις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 639
Further reading
[edit]- “κάππαρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάππαρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κάππαρις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011