κτύπος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Reminiscent of δοῦπος (doûpos), but further details are unknown. No doubt of Pre-Greek origin, with variation between voiced and unvoiced stop.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ktý.pos/ → /ˈkty.pos/ → /ˈkti.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ktý.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkty.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkty.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkty.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkti.pos/

Noun

κτῠ́πος • (ktúpos) m (genitive κτῠ́που); second declension

1. crash, bang, din

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κτῠ́πος; τοῦ κτῠ́που (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κτῠ́πος ho ktúpos	τὼ κτῠ́πω tṑ ktúpō	οἱ κτῠ́ποι hoi ktúpoi
Genitive	τοῦ κτῠ́που toû ktúpou	τοῖν κτῠ́ποιν toîn ktúpoin	τῶν κτῠ́πων tôn ktúpōn
Dative	τῷ κτῠ́πῳ tôi ktúpōi	τοῖν κτῠ́ποιν toîn ktúpoin	τοῖς κτῠ́ποις toîs ktúpois
Accusative	τὸν κτῠ́πον tòn ktúpon	τὼ κτῠ́πω tṑ ktúpō	τοὺς κτῠ́πους toùs ktúpous
Vocative	κτῠ́πε ktúpe	κτῠ́πω ktúpō	κτῠ́ποι ktúpoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κτυπέω (ktupéō)
• κτύπημα (ktúpēma)
• κτυπητής (ktupētḗs)
• κτυπία (ktupía)
• λυρόκτυπος (luróktupos)

 

Descendants

• Greek: χτύπος (chtýpos)

Further reading

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

Greek

Noun

κτύπος • (ktýpos) m (plural κτύποι)

1. Alternative form of χτύπος (chtýpos)

Declension

Declension of κτύπος

	singular	plural
nominative	κτύπος (ktýpos)	κτύποι (ktýpoi)
genitive	κτύπου (ktýpou)	κτύπων (ktýpon)
accusative	κτύπο (ktýpo)	κτύπους (ktýpous)
vocative	κτύπε (ktýpe)	κτύποι (ktýpoi)