κυπρῖνος

See also: κύπρινος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Other names for this fish, like Sanskrit शफर (śaphara), Lithuanian šāpalas and Late Latin carpa, are not related. The suffix -ῖν- is well-known in Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ky.prîː.nos/ → /cyˈpri.nos/ → /ciˈpri.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.prîː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈpri.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈpri.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈpri.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈpri.nos/

Noun

κῠπρῖνος • (kŭprînos) m (genitive κῠπρῑ́νου); second declension

1. carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠπρῖνος; τοῦ κῠπρῑ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠπρῖνος ho kŭprînos	τὼ κῠπρῑ́νω tṑ kŭprī́nō	οἱ κῠπρῖνοι hoi kŭprînoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠπρῑ́νου toû kŭprī́nou	τοῖν κῠπρῑ́νοιν toîn kŭprī́noin	τῶν κῠπρῑ́νων tôn kŭprī́nōn
Dative	τῷ κῠπρῑ́νῳ tôi kŭprī́nōi	τοῖν κῠπρῑ́νοιν toîn kŭprī́noin	τοῖς κῠπρῑ́νοις toîs kŭprī́nois
Accusative	τὸν κῠπρῖνον tòn kŭprînon	τὼ κῠπρῑ́νω tṑ kŭprī́nō	τοὺς κῠπρῑ́νους toùs kŭprī́nous
Vocative	κῠπρῖνε kŭprîne	κῠπρῑ́νω kŭprī́nō	κῠπρῖνοι kŭprînoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cyprīnus
  • → Translingual: Cyprinus

Further reading

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