κρηπίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Derived from a nominal base form, like κνημίς (knēmís) and χειρίς (kheirís), or perhaps this word just took over their ending. The technical meaning suggests a loan. The connection with words for shoe, like Lithuanian kurpe (“shoes”) is formally impeccable, but is rejected by Fraenkel. According to Beekes, the suffix -ῖδ- suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krɛː.pís/ → /kriˈpis/ → /kriˈpis/

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

Noun

κρηπῐ́ς • (krēpís) f (genitive κρηπῖδος); third declension

1. man's high boot, half-boot

   Synonym: ἁρπίς (harpís)

2. soldier's boot
3. shoe-shaped cake
4. (figuratively) groundwork, foundation, basement of a building
5. walled edge of a river or canal, quay
6. abutment of a bridge
7. tiers of seats in a theatre
8. oxtongue (Helminthotheca echioides)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κρηπῐ́ς; τῆς κρηπῖδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κρηπῐ́ς hē krēpís	τὼ κρηπῖδε tṑ krēpîde	αἱ κρηπῖδες hai krēpîdes
Genitive	τῆς κρηπῖδος tês krēpîdos	τοῖν κρηπῑ́δοιν toîn krēpī́doin	τῶν κρηπῑ́δων tôn krēpī́dōn
Dative	τῇ κρηπῖδῐ têi krēpîdi	τοῖν κρηπῑ́δοιν toîn krēpī́doin	ταῖς κρηπῖσῐ / κρηπῖσῐν taîs krēpîsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κρηπῖδᾰ tḕn krēpîda	τὼ κρηπῖδε tṑ krēpîde	τᾱ̀ς κρηπῖδᾰς tā̀s krēpîdas
Vocative	κρηπῐ́ς krēpís	κρηπῖδε krēpîde	κρηπῖδες krēpîdes
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.

Derived terms

• κρηπῑδαῖον (krēpīdaîon)
• κρηπῑδοποιός (krēpīdopoiós)
• κρηπῑδουργός (krēpīdourgós)
• κρηπῑδόω (krēpīdóō)
• κρηπῑ́δωμᾰ (krēpī́dōma)
• κρηπῑδῐαῖος (krēpīdiaîos)
• κρηπῑ́δῐον (krēpī́dion)
• ὀπῐσθοκρηπῐ́ς (opisthokrēpís)

 

Descendants

• → English: crepis
• → Latin: crepida
• → Translingual: Crepis

Further reading

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