κέπφος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A by-form is κεμπός (kempós, “stupid person”), where the prenasalization shows that the word is Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /képʰ.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkep.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcep.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcep.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcep.fos/
Noun
[edit]κέπφος • (képphos) m (genitive κέπφου); second declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κέπφος ho képphos |
τὼ κέπφω tṑ képphō |
οἱ κέπφοι hoi képphoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κέπφου toû képphou |
τοῖν κέπφοιν toîn képphoin |
τῶν κέπφων tôn képphōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κέπφῳ tôi képphōi |
τοῖν κέπφοιν toîn képphoin |
τοῖς κέπφοις toîs képphois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κέπφον tòn képphon |
τὼ κέπφω tṑ képphō |
τοὺς κέπφους toùs képphous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κέπφε képphe |
κέπφω képphō |
κέπφοι képphoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- κεπφαττελεβώδης (kepphattelebṓdēs)
- κεπφόω (kepphóō)
Further reading
[edit]- “κέπφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κέπφος 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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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
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