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

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.pros/ → /ˈka.pros/ → /ˈka.pros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.pros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pros/

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^[1], 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

	singular	plural
nominative	κάπρος (kápros)	κάπροι (káproi)
genitive	κάπρου (káprou)	κάπρων (kápron)
accusative	κάπρο (kápro)	κάπρους (káprous)
vocative	κάπρε (kápre)	κάπροι (káproi)

Synonyms

• αγριόχοιρος m (agrióchoiros)

See also

• see: χοίρος m (choíros, “pig”)

Further reading

• κάπρος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el