Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, basket).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cophinus m (genitive cophinī); second declension

  1. A hamper, basket.

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cophinus cophinī
Genitive cophinī cophinōrum
Dative cophinō cophinīs
Accusative cophinum cophinōs
Ablative cophinō cophinīs
Vocative cophine cophinī

Descendants edit

References edit

  • cophinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cophinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cophinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cophinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • cophinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cophinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin