καπνός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”); see also Lithuanian kūpėti (“to boil over”), Old Church Slavonic кꙑпѣти (kypěti, “to boil”), Sanskrit कुप्यति (kupyati, “become agitated, bubbles up”), Latin cupiō.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.pnós/ → /kaˈpnos/ → /kaˈpnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.pnós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈpnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈpnos/

Noun

καπνός • (kapnós) m (genitive καπνοῦ); second declension

1. smoke

Declension

Second declension of ὁ καπνός; τοῦ καπνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ καπνός ho kapnós	τὼ καπνώ tṑ kapnṓ	οἱ καπνοί hoi kapnoí
Genitive	τοῦ καπνοῦ toû kapnoû	τοῖν καπνοῖν toîn kapnoîn	τῶν καπνῶν tôn kapnôn
Dative	τῷ καπνῷ tôi kapnôi	τοῖν καπνοῖν toîn kapnoîn	τοῖς καπνοῖς toîs kapnoîs
Accusative	τὸν καπνόν tòn kapnón	τὼ καπνώ tṑ kapnṓ	τοὺς καπνούς toùs kapnoús
Vocative	καπνέ kapné	καπνώ kapnṓ	καπνοί kapnoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: καπνός (kapnós)

Further reading

• “καπνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καπνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “καπνός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• καπνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• καπνός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “καπνός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2586 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpno̞s/
• Hyphenation: κα‧πνός

Noun

καπνός • (kapnós) m (plural καπνοί)

1. smoke

   δεν υπάρχει καπνός χωρίς φωτιά (there is no smoke without fire)

2. tobacco (plant and its products)

Declension

Declension of καπνός

	singular	plural
nominative	καπνός •	καπνοί •
genitive	καπνού •	καπνών •
accusative	καπνό •	καπνούς •
vocative	καπνέ •	καπνοί •

See also

• ταμπάκος m (tampákos, “snuff”)
• νικοτιανή f (nikotianí, “nicotiana”)