καμπή

See also: κάμπη

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 18 August 2018

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Hellenic *kampā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp-, from *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). By surface analysis, κάμπτω (kámptō, “to bend”) +‎ -ή (-ḗ).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kam.pɛ̌ː/ → /kamˈpi/ → /kamˈbi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kam.pɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kamˈpe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kamˈpi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kamˈpi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kamˈbi/

Noun

καμπή • (kampḗ) f (genitive καμπῆς); first declension

1. winding, such as of a river
   1. flexion, bending
   2. a curved part, curve
2. the turning post in a racecourse

   Synonyms: νύσσα (nússa), καμπτήρ (kamptḗr)

   1. (figuratively) the goal of a speech
3. (music) a turn, a sudden change
   1. (rhetoric) rounding off of a period
4. bend or flexure of a limb or of the skull

Declension

First declension of ἡ καμπή; τῆς καμπῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ καμπή hē kampḗ	τὼ καμπᾱ́ tṑ kampā́	αἱ καμπαί hai kampaí
Genitive	τῆς καμπῆς tês kampês	τοῖν καμπαῖν toîn kampaîn	τῶν καμπῶν tôn kampôn
Dative	τῇ καμπῇ tēî kampēî	τοῖν καμπαῖν toîn kampaîn	ταῖς καμπαῖς taîs kampaîs
Accusative	τὴν καμπήν tḕn kampḗn	τὼ καμπᾱ́ tṑ kampā́	τᾱ̀ς καμπᾱ́ς tā̀s kampā́s
Vocative	καμπή kampḗ	καμπᾱ́ kampā́	καμπαί kampaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• κάμπη (kámpē)
• κάμπτω (kámptō)
• καμψός (kampsós)

Descendants

• → Late Latin: gamba (“hock, shank; thigh, (upper) leg”), camba
  • Italian: gamba
    • → English: gam, gamba
    • → Ido: gambo
  • Old French: jambe, gambe, ganbe
    • Middle French: jambe, gambe
      • French: jambe
      • → Middle English: gambe
        • English: gamb
      • → Middle English: jambe
        • English: jamb
    • Norman: gambe, gaumbe, gàmbe, gãb
    • Picard: gambe
    • Walloon: djambe
  • Romanian: gambă
  • Sicilian: jamma
  • Spanish: gamba

Further reading

• “καμπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καμπή in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• καμπή in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• “καμπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καμπή, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011