κοπέλα

Greek

Etymology

Initial meaning ‘maid, stepdaughter’, feminine of Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos, “servant, stepson”), from South Proto-Slavic *kopylъ ‘shoot, sprout; bastard’ (compare Serbo-Croatian kȍpile, Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele); cf. also Albanian kopil (“bastard”), Romanian copilă (“child, girl”)).

Noun

κοπέλα • (kopéla) f (plural κοπέλες)

1. young adult woman
2. girlfriend

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	κοπέλα (kopéla)	κοπέλες (kopéles)
genitive	κοπέλας (kopélas)	-
accusative	κοπέλα (kopéla)	κοπέλες (kopéles)
vocative	κοπέλα (kopéla)	κοπέλες (kopéles)

Synonyms

• (girlfriend): φίλη f (fíli)
• (girl, girlfriend): κορίτσι n (korítsi), κορασίδα f (korasída) (archaic)