κέλυφος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ké.lyː.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈke.ly.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈce.ly.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈce.ly.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈce.li.fos/
Noun
κέλῡφος • (kélūphos) n (genitive κελῡ́φους); third declension
- A sheath, a case
- (botany) A pod, a shell
- (zoology) The envelop of a chrysalis
- An eggshell
- (anatomy) The hollow of the eye
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κέλῡφος tò kélūphos |
τὼ κελῡ́φει tṑ kelū́phei |
τᾰ̀ κελῡ́φη tà kelū́phē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κελῡ́φους toû kelū́phous |
τοῖν κελῡφοῖν toîn kelūphoîn |
τῶν κελῡφῶν tôn kelūphôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κελῡ́φει tôi kelū́phei |
τοῖν κελῡφοῖν toîn kelūphoîn |
τοῖς κελῡ́φεσῐ / κελῡ́φεσῐν toîs kelū́phesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κέλῡφος tò kélūphos |
τὼ κελῡ́φει tṑ kelū́phei |
τᾰ̀ κελῡ́φη tà kelū́phē | ||||||||||
Vocative | κέλῡφος kélūphos |
κελῡ́φει kelū́phei |
κελῡ́φη kelū́phē | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κελῡ́φανον (kelū́phanon)
- κελῡφανώδης (kelūphanṓdēs)
- κελῡ́φιον (kelū́phion)
- κελῡφοκομῖον (kelūphokomîon)
Descendants
- Greek: κέλυφος (kélyfos)
Synonyms
- γολύριον (golúrion)
Further reading
- “κέλυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κέλυφος 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
Greek
Noun
κέλυφος • (kélyfos) n (plural κελύφη)
- shell (of mollusks, crustaceans, etc)
- eggshell
- nutshell
- shell, casing (around instrument or mechanism)
Declension
Declension of κέλυφος
Synonyms
Categories:
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
- grc:Botany
- grc:Zoology
- grc:Anatomy
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek neuter nouns
- Greek nouns declining like 'έδαφος'