κοπίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κοπή (kopḗ, “cutting, slaughter”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.pís/ → /koˈpis/ → /koˈpis/

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

Noun

κοπῐ́ς • (kopís) f (genitive κοπῐ́δος); third declension

1. chopper, cleaver

   Synonym: κύβηλις (kúbēlis)

2. broad, curved knife used by Thessalians
3. (at Sparta) feast given on certain festivals to strangers

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κοπῐ́ς; τῆς κοπῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κοπῐ́ς hē kopís	τὼ κοπῐ́δε tṑ kopíde	αἱ κοπῐ́δες hai kopídes
Genitive	τῆς κοπῐ́δος tês kopídos	τοῖν κοπῐ́δοιν toîn kopídoin	τῶν κοπῐ́δων tôn kopídōn
Dative	τῇ κοπῐ́δῐ têi kopídi	τοῖν κοπῐ́δοιν toîn kopídoin	ταῖς κοπῐ́σῐ / κοπῐ́σῐν taîs kopísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κοπῐ́δᾰ tḕn kopída	τὼ κοπῐ́δε tṑ kopíde	τᾱ̀ς κοπῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kopídas
Vocative	κοπῐ́ς kopís	κοπῐ́δε kopíde	κοπῐ́δες kopídes
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.

References

• “κοπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κοπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κοπίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette