καπυρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), the same root of καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.py.rós/ → /ka.pyˈros/ → /ka.piˈros/

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

Adjective

κᾰπῠρός • (kapurós) m (feminine κᾰπῠρᾱ́, neuter κᾰπῠρόν); first/second declension

1. dried by the air
2. drying, parching
3. brittle, crisp, friable
4. crackly (of sound)

Declension

First and second declension of κᾰπῠρός; κᾰπῠρᾱ́; κᾰπῠρόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		κᾰπῠρός kapurós	κᾰπῠρᾱ́ kapurā́	κᾰπῠρόν kapurón		κᾰπῠρώ kapurṓ	κᾰπῠρᾱ́ kapurā́	κᾰπῠρώ kapurṓ		κᾰπῠροί kapuroí	κᾰπῠραί kapuraí	κᾰπῠρᾰ́ kapurá
Genitive		κᾰπῠροῦ kapuroû	κᾰπῠρᾶς kapurâs	κᾰπῠροῦ kapuroû		κᾰπῠροῖν kapuroîn	κᾰπῠραῖν kapuraîn	κᾰπῠροῖν kapuroîn		κᾰπῠρῶν kapurôn	κᾰπῠρῶν kapurôn	κᾰπῠρῶν kapurôn
Dative		κᾰπῠρῷ kapurôi	κᾰπῠρᾷ kapurâi	κᾰπῠρῷ kapurôi		κᾰπῠροῖν kapuroîn	κᾰπῠραῖν kapuraîn	κᾰπῠροῖν kapuroîn		κᾰπῠροῖς kapuroîs	κᾰπῠραῖς kapuraîs	κᾰπῠροῖς kapuroîs
Accusative		κᾰπῠρόν kapurón	κᾰπῠρᾱ́ν kapurā́n	κᾰπῠρόν kapurón		κᾰπῠρώ kapurṓ	κᾰπῠρᾱ́ kapurā́	κᾰπῠρώ kapurṓ		κᾰπῠρούς kapuroús	κᾰπῠρᾱ́ς kapurā́s	κᾰπῠρᾰ́ kapurá
Vocative		κᾰπῠρέ kapuré	κᾰπῠρᾱ́ kapurā́	κᾰπῠρόν kapurón		κᾰπῠρώ kapurṓ	κᾰπῠρᾱ́ kapurā́	κᾰπῠρώ kapurṓ		κᾰπῠροί kapuroí	κᾰπῠραί kapuraí	κᾰπῠρᾰ́ kapurá
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		κᾰπῠρῶς kapurôs				κᾰπῠρώτερος kapurṓteros				κᾰπῠρώτᾰτος kapurṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καπυρίδια (kapurídia)
• καπυρίζω (kapurízō)
• καπυριστής (kapuristḗs)
• καπυρόομαι (kapuróomai)
• καπυρώδης (kapurṓdēs)

 

Further reading

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