Κωπαΐς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Κωπᾷς (Kōpâis)

Etymology

From Κῶπαι (Kôpai, “Copia”) +‎ -ίς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔː.paː.ís/ → /ko.paˈis/ → /ko.paˈis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔː.paː.ís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.paˈis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.paˈis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.paˈis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.paˈis/

Proper noun

Κωπᾱῐ̈́ς • (Kōpāḯs) f (genitive Κωπᾱῐ̈́δος); third declension

1. Copais, a former lake in Boeotia

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Κωπᾱῐ̈́ς; τῆς Κωπᾱῐ̈́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Κωπᾱῐ̈́ς hē Kōpāḯs
Genitive	τῆς Κωπᾱῐ̈́δος tês Kōpāḯdos
Dative	τῇ Κωπᾱῐ̈́δῐ têi Kōpāḯdi
Accusative	τὴν Κωπᾱῐ̈́δᾰ tḕn Kōpāḯda
Vocative	Κωπᾱῐ̈́ς Kōpāḯs
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Related terms

• Κωπαιῆς (Kōpaiês)

Descendants

• Greek: Κωπαΐς (Kopaḯs); Κωπαΐδα (Kopaḯda)
• Latin: Cōpāïs

References

• “κωπαΐς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, pages 1,006, 1,007