κάπηλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes finds improbable a derivation from κάπη (kápē, “crib, manger”). Maybe related to Latin caupō (“innkeeper”) or alternatively from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.pɛː.los/ → /ˈka.pi.los/ → /ˈka.pi.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.pɛː.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pe̝.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi.los/

Noun

κάπηλος • (kápēlos) m or f (genitive κᾰπήλου); second declension

1. retail dealer, huckster
2. innkeeper

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́πηλος; τοῦ, τῆς κᾰπήλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́πηλος ho, hē kápēlos	τὼ κᾰπήλω tṑ kapḗlō	οἱ, αἱ κᾰ́πηλοι hoi, hai kápēloi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς κᾰπήλου toû, tês kapḗlou	τοῖν κᾰπήλοιν toîn kapḗloin	τῶν κᾰπήλων tôn kapḗlōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ κᾰπήλῳ tôi, têi kapḗlōi	τοῖν κᾰπήλοιν toîn kapḗloin	τοῖς, ταῖς κᾰπήλοις toîs, taîs kapḗlois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν κᾰ́πηλον tòn, tḕn kápēlon	τὼ κᾰπήλω tṑ kapḗlō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κᾰπήλους toùs, tā̀s kapḗlous
Vocative	κᾰ́πηλε kápēle	κᾰπήλω kapḗlō	κᾰ́πηλοι kápēloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βῐβλῐοκᾰ́πηλος (bibliokápēlos)
• καπηλεία (kapēleía)
• καπηλεῖον (kapēleîon)
• καπηλείς (kapēleís)
• καπηλευτικός (kapēleutikós)
• καπηλεύω (kapēleúō)
• καπηλικός (kapēlikós)
• καπήλιον (kapḗlion)
• καπηλογείτων (kapēlogeítōn)
• καπηλοδύτης (kapēlodútēs)
• πᾰλῐγκᾰ́πηλος (palinkápēlos)

 

Descendants

• Greek: κάπηλος (kápilos)

Further reading

• “κάπηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάπηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κάπηλος 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