καλοπόδιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾱλαπόδιον (kālapódion)

Etymology

From κᾱλόπους (kālópous) +‎ -ιον (-ion), the former a compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (poús, “foot”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaː.lo.pó.di.on/ → /ka.loˈpo.ði.on/ → /ka.loˈpo.ði.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kaː.lo.pó.di.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.loˈpo.di.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.loˈpo.ði.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.loˈpo.ði.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.loˈpo.ði.on/

Noun

κᾱλοπόδῐον • (kālopódion) n (genitive κᾱλοποδῐ́ου); second declension

1. shoemaker's last

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κᾱλοπόδῐον; τοῦ κᾱλοποδῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κᾱλοπόδῐον tò kālopódion	τὼ κᾱλοποδῐ́ω tṑ kālopodíō	τᾰ̀ κᾱλοπόδῐᾰ tà kālopódia
Genitive	τοῦ κᾱλοποδῐ́ου toû kālopodíou	τοῖν κᾱλοποδῐ́οιν toîn kālopodíoin	τῶν κᾱλοποδῐ́ων tôn kālopodíōn
Dative	τῷ κᾱλοποδῐ́ῳ tôi kālopodíōi	τοῖν κᾱλοποδῐ́οιν toîn kālopodíoin	τοῖς κᾱλοποδῐ́οις toîs kālopodíois
Accusative	τὸ κᾱλοπόδῐον tò kālopódion	τὼ κᾱλοποδῐ́ω tṑ kālopodíō	τᾰ̀ κᾱλοπόδῐᾰ tà kālopódia
Vocative	κᾱλοπόδῐον kālopódion	κᾱλοποδῐ́ω kālopodíō	κᾱλοπόδῐᾰ kālopódia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: καλαπόδι (kalapódi) (from καλαπόδιον (kalapódion))
  • → Romanian: calapod
• → Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (kʾlpwt' /⁠kālbod⁠/), 𐫐𐫀𐫓𐫁𐫏𐫅 (kʾlbyd /⁠kālbid⁠/)
  • Persian: کالبد (kâlbod)
• → Old Armenian: կաղապար (kałapar), գաղափար (gałapʻar) (via an unknown Iranian language; see each for more descendants)
• → Classical Syriac: ܩܠܒܝܕ (/⁠*qālobīḏ⁠/)
  • → Arabic: قَالِب (qālib) (see there for further descendants)
    • → French: calibre (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “καλοπόδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καλοπόδιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette