καπίθη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Persian *kapiča- (literally “holder, something containing”), whence also καπέτις (kapétis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.pí.tʰɛː/ → /kaˈpi.θi/ → /kaˈpi.θi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.pí.tʰɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈpi.tʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpi.θi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpi.θi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈpi.θi/

Noun

κᾰπῐ́θη • (kăpĭ́thē) f (genitive κᾰπῐ́θης); first declension

1. Persian unit of measure containing two choenixes

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κᾰπῐ́θη; τῆς κᾰπῐ́θης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰπῐ́θη hē kăpĭ́thē	τὼ κᾰπῐ́θᾱ tṑ kăpĭ́thā	αἱ κᾰπῐ́θαι hai kăpĭ́thai
Genitive	τῆς κᾰπῐ́θης tês kăpĭ́thēs	τοῖν κᾰπῐ́θαιν toîn kăpĭ́thain	τῶν κᾰπῐθῶν tôn kăpĭthôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰπῐ́θῃ têi kăpĭ́thēi	τοῖν κᾰπῐ́θαιν toîn kăpĭ́thain	ταῖς κᾰπῐ́θαις taîs kăpĭ́thais
Accusative	τὴν κᾰπῐ́θην tḕn kăpĭ́thēn	τὼ κᾰπῐ́θᾱ tṑ kăpĭ́thā	τᾱ̀ς κᾰπῐ́θᾱς tā̀s kăpĭ́thās
Vocative	κᾰπῐ́θη kăpĭ́thē	κᾰπῐ́θᾱ kăpĭ́thā	κᾰπῐ́θαι kăpĭ́thai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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