τάρπη

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tár.pɛː/ → /ˈtar.pi/ → /ˈtar.pi/

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

Etymology 1

Frisk compares ταργάναι (targánai), σαργάνη (sargánē) and even ταρσός (tarsós), but these comparisons are useless. Furnée compares δάρπη (dárpē), which would point to a Pre-Greek word. Has also been connected with Old Armenian թարփ (tʻarpʻ).

Noun

τάρπη • (tárpē) f (genitive τάρπης); first declension

1. large wicker basket

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τάρπη; τῆς τάρπης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τάρπη hē tárpē	τὼ τάρπᾱ tṑ tárpā	αἱ τάρπαι hai tárpai
Genitive	τῆς τάρπης tês tárpēs	τοῖν τάρπαιν toîn tárpain	τῶν ταρπῶν tôn tarpôn
Dative	τῇ τάρπῃ têi tárpēi	τοῖν τάρπαιν toîn tárpain	ταῖς τάρπαις taîs tárpais
Accusative	τὴν τάρπην tḕn tárpēn	τὼ τάρπᾱ tṑ tárpā	τᾱ̀ς τάρπᾱς tā̀s tárpās
Vocative	τάρπη tárpē	τάρπᾱ tárpā	τάρπαι tárpai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Alternative forms

• τάρπος (tárpos)

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

τάρπη • (tárpē)

1. (Epic) third-person singular aorist passive indicative unaugmented of τέρπω (térpō)