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 • (kuprînos) 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 kuprînos	τὼ κῠπρῑ́νω tṑ kuprī́nō	οἱ κῠπρῖνοι hoi kuprînoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠπρῑ́νου toû kuprī́nou	τοῖν κῠπρῑ́νοιν toîn kuprī́noin	τῶν κῠπρῑ́νων tôn kuprī́nōn
Dative	τῷ κῠπρῑ́νῳ tôi kuprī́nōi	τοῖν κῠπρῑ́νοιν toîn kuprī́noin	τοῖς κῠπρῑ́νοις toîs kuprī́nois
Accusative	τὸν κῠπρῖνον tòn kuprînon	τὼ κῠπρῑ́νω tṑ kuprī́nō	τοὺς κῠπρῑ́νους toùs kuprī́nous
Vocative	κῠπρῖνε kuprîne	κῠπρῑ́νω kuprī́nō	κῠπρῖνοι kuprînoi
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