κύπειρον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κύπαιρος (kúpairos), κύπειρος (kúpeiros), κύπερος (kúperos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, a foreign Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.peː.ron/ → /ˈcy.pi.ron/ → /ˈci.pi.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.peː.ron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.pi.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.pi.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.pi.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.pi.ron/

Noun

κῠ́πειρον • (kúpeiron) n (genitive κῠπείρου); second declension

1. galingale (Cyperus longus)

   Synonym: ζέρνα (zérna)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κῠ́πειρον; τοῦ κῠπείρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῠ́πειρον tò kúpeiron	τὼ κῠπείρω tṑ kupeírō	τᾰ̀ κῠ́πειρᾰ tà kúpeira
Genitive	τοῦ κῠπείρου toû kupeírou	τοῖν κῠπείροιν toîn kupeíroin	τῶν κῠπείρων tôn kupeírōn
Dative	τῷ κῠπείρῳ tôi kupeírōi	τοῖν κῠπείροιν toîn kupeíroin	τοῖς κῠπείροις toîs kupeírois
Accusative	τὸ κῠ́πειρον tò kúpeiron	τὼ κῠπείρω tṑ kupeírō	τᾰ̀ κῠ́πειρᾰ tà kúpeira
Vocative	κῠ́πειρον kúpeiron	κῠπείρω kupeírō	κῠ́πειρᾰ kúpeira
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κυπερίζω (kuperízō)

Further reading

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