κρώπιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρώβιον (krṓbion)

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to pluck, to harvest”) and so cognate with Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest”), Latin carpō (“I pluck”) and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”). Beekes, instead, claims that the word must be of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krɔ̌ː.pi.on/ → /ˈkro.pi.on/ → /ˈkro.pi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krɔ̌ː.pi.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/

Noun

κρώπῐον • (krṓpĭon) n (genitive κρωπῐ́ου); second declension

1. scythe, billhook

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κρώπῐον; τοῦ κρωπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρώπῐον tò krṓpĭon	τὼ κρωπῐ́ω tṑ krōpĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κρώπῐᾰ tằ krṓpĭă
Genitive	τοῦ κρωπῐ́ου toû krōpĭ́ou	τοῖν κρωπῐ́οιν toîn krōpĭ́oin	τῶν κρωπῐ́ων tôn krōpĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ κρωπῐ́ῳ tôi krōpĭ́ōi	τοῖν κρωπῐ́οιν toîn krōpĭ́oin	τοῖς κρωπῐ́οις toîs krōpĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ κρώπῐον tò krṓpĭon	τὼ κρωπῐ́ω tṑ krōpĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κρώπῐᾰ tằ krṓpĭă
Vocative	κρώπῐον krṓpĭon	κρωπῐ́ω krōpĭ́ō	κρώπῐᾰ krṓpĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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