κρηπίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Derived from a nominal base form, like κνημίς (knēmís) and χειρίς (kheirís), or perhaps this word just took over their ending. The technical meaning suggests a loan. The connection with words for shoe, like Lithuanian kurpe (“shoes”) is formally impeccable, but is rejected by Fraenkel. According to Beekes, the suffix -ῖδ- suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krɛː.pís/ → /kriˈpis/ → /kriˈpis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krɛː.pís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kre̝ˈpis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kriˈpis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kriˈpis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kriˈpis/

Noun

κρηπῐ́ς • (krēpĭ́s) f (genitive κρηπῖδος); third declension

1. man's high boot, half-boot

   Synonym: ἁρπίς (harpís)

2. soldier's boot
3. shoe-shaped cake
4. (figuratively) groundwork, foundation, basement of a building
5. walled edge of a river or canal, quay
6. abutment of a bridge
7. tiers of seats in a theatre
8. oxtongue (Helminthotheca echioides)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κρηπῐ́ς; τῆς κρηπῖδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κρηπῐ́ς hē krēpĭ́s	τὼ κρηπῖδε tṑ krēpîde	αἱ κρηπῖδες hai krēpîdes
Genitive	τῆς κρηπῖδος tês krēpîdos	τοῖν κρηπῑ́δοιν toîn krēpī́doin	τῶν κρηπῑ́δων tôn krēpī́dōn
Dative	τῇ κρηπῖδῐ têi krēpîdĭ	τοῖν κρηπῑ́δοιν toîn krēpī́doin	ταῖς κρηπῖσῐ / κρηπῖσῐν taîs krēpîsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κρηπῖδᾰ tḕn krēpîdă	τὼ κρηπῖδε tṑ krēpîde	τᾱ̀ς κρηπῖδᾰς tā̀s krēpîdăs
Vocative	κρηπῐ́ς krēpĭ́s	κρηπῖδε krēpîde	κρηπῖδες krēpîdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• κρηπῑδαῖον (krēpīdaîon)
• κρηπῑδῐαῖος (krēpīdĭaîos)
• κρηπῑ́δῐον (krēpī́dĭon)
• κρηπῑδοποιός (krēpīdopoiós)
• κρηπῑδουργός (krēpīdourgós)
• κρηπῑδόω (krēpīdóō)
• κρηπῑ́δωμᾰ (krēpī́dōmă)
• ὀπῐσθοκρηπῐ́ς (opĭsthokrēpĭ́s)

Descendants

• → English: crepis
• → Latin: crepida
• → Translingual: Crepis

Further reading

• “κρηπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κρηπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρηπίς 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