κώπη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kṓpā, from Proto-Indo-European *kóh₂p-eh₂, from the root *keh₂p- (“seize, grab”), which also gives κάπτω (káptō, “gulp down”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.pɛː/ → /ˈko.pi/ → /ˈko.pi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.pɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.pe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.pi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.pi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.pi/

Noun

κώπη • (kṓpē) f (genitive κώπης); first declension

1. a handle (e.g. of an oar)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κώπη; τῆς κώπης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κώπη hē kṓpē	τὼ κώπᾱ tṑ kṓpā	αἱ κῶπαι hai kôpai
Genitive	τῆς κώπης tês kṓpēs	τοῖν κώπαιν toîn kṓpain	τῶν κωπῶν tôn kōpôn
Dative	τῇ κώπῃ têi kṓpēi	τοῖν κώπαιν toîn kṓpain	ταῖς κώπαις taîs kṓpais
Accusative	τὴν κώπην tḕn kṓpēn	τὼ κώπᾱ tṑ kṓpā	τᾱ̀ς κώπᾱς tā̀s kṓpās
Vocative	κώπη kṓpē	κώπᾱ kṓpā	κῶπαι kôpai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “κώπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κώπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κώπη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κώπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κώπη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • haft idem, page 380.
  • handle idem, page 383.
  • hilt idem, page 400.
  • oar idem, page 564.
• κώπη - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.