καπέτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Persian *kapiča- (literally “holder, something containing”), whence also καπίθη (kapíthē), so a connection with κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”) is improbable. Others reference Sanskrit कपटी (kapaṭī, “two handfuls”), while Frisk refers to Classical Persian کویز (kawīz, “qafiz”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.pé.tis/ → /kaˈpe.tis/ → /kaˈpe.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.pé.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈpe.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpe.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpe.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈpe.tis/

Noun

κᾰπέτῐς • (kapétis) f (genitive κᾰπέτῐος); third declension

1. Persian measure, corresponding to ¹⁄₄₈ of the ἀρτάβη (artábē)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κᾰπέτῐς; τῆς κᾰπέτῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰπέτῐς hē kapétis	τὼ κᾰπέτῐε tṑ kapétie	αἱ κᾰπέτῐες hai kapéties
Genitive	τῆς κᾰπέτῐος tês kapétios	τοῖν κᾰπετῐ́οιν toîn kapetíoin	τῶν κᾰπετῐ́ων tôn kapetíōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰπέτῑ têi kapétī	τοῖν κᾰπετῐ́οιν toîn kapetíoin	ταῖς κᾰπέτῐσῐ / κᾰπέτῐσῐν taîs kapétisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰπέτῐν tḕn kapétin	τὼ κᾰπέτῐε tṑ kapétie	τᾱ̀ς κᾰπέτῑς / κᾰπέτῐᾰς tā̀s kapétīs / kapétias
Vocative	κᾰπέτῐ kapéti	κᾰπέτῐε kapétie	κᾰπέτῐες kapéties
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “καπέτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καπέτις 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