κρώπιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρώβιον (krṓbion)

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to pluck, to harvest”) and so cognate with Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest”), Latin carpō (“I pluck”) and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”). Beekes, instead, claims that the word must be of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krɔ̌ː.pi.on/ → /ˈkro.pi.on/ → /ˈkro.pi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krɔ̌ː.pi.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/

Noun

κρώπῐον • (krṓpion) n (genitive κρωπῐ́ου); second declension

1. scythe, billhook

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κρώπῐον; τοῦ κρωπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρώπῐον tò krṓpion	τὼ κρωπῐ́ω tṑ krōpíō	τᾰ̀ κρώπῐᾰ tà krṓpia
Genitive	τοῦ κρωπῐ́ου toû krōpíou	τοῖν κρωπῐ́οιν toîn krōpíoin	τῶν κρωπῐ́ων tôn krōpíōn
Dative	τῷ κρωπῐ́ῳ tôi krōpíōi	τοῖν κρωπῐ́οιν toîn krōpíoin	τοῖς κρωπῐ́οις toîs krōpíois
Accusative	τὸ κρώπῐον tò krṓpion	τὼ κρωπῐ́ω tṑ krōpíō	τᾰ̀ κρώπῐᾰ tà krṓpia
Vocative	κρώπῐον krṓpion	κρωπῐ́ω krōpíō	κρώπῐᾰ krṓpia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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