κηπαία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Feminine form of κηπαῖος (kēpaîos, “of or from a garden”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛː.pǎi̯.aː/ → /ciˈpɛ.a/ → /ciˈpe.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.pǎi̯.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝ˈpɛ.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈpɛ.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈpe.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈpe.a/

Noun

κηπαίᾱ • (kēpaíā) f (genitive κηπαίᾱς); first declension

1. garden door, back door
2. pink stonecrop (Sedum cepaea)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κηπαίᾱ; τῆς κηπαίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κηπαίᾱ hē kēpaíā	τὼ κηπαίᾱ tṑ kēpaíā	αἱ κηπαῖαι hai kēpaîai
Genitive	τῆς κηπαίᾱς tês kēpaíās	τοῖν κηπαίαιν toîn kēpaíain	τῶν κηπαιῶν tôn kēpaiôn
Dative	τῇ κηπαίᾳ têi kēpaíāi	τοῖν κηπαίαιν toîn kēpaíain	ταῖς κηπαίαις taîs kēpaíais
Accusative	τὴν κηπαίᾱν tḕn kēpaíān	τὼ κηπαίᾱ tṑ kēpaíā	τᾱ̀ς κηπαίᾱς tā̀s kēpaíās
Vocative	κηπαίᾱ kēpaíā	κηπαίᾱ kēpaíā	κηπαῖαι kēpaîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Cepaea

Further reading

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