καρπός

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kar.pós/ → /karˈpos/ → /karˈpos/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /kar.pós/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /karˈpos/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /karˈpos/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /karˈpos/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /karˈpos/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“pluck, harvest”); see also West Frisian hjerst, Dutch herfst, German Herbst, Middle Low German hervest (“autumn”) (Dutch Low Saxon haarfst (“autumn”)), Danish høst, Latin carpere 'to seize', and κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”).

Noun

κᾰρπός • (karpós) m (genitive κᾰρποῦ); second declension

1. fruit, grain, produce, harvest
2. the product of something: children (fruit of the body), poetry (fruit of the mind), profit

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κᾰρπός; τοῦ κᾰρποῦ

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰρπός	τὼ κᾰρπώ	οἱ κᾰρποί
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰρποῦ	τοῖν κᾰρποῖν	τῶν κᾰρπῶν
Dative	τῷ κᾰρπῷ	τοῖν κᾰρποῖν	τοῖς κᾰρποῖς
Accusative	τὸν κᾰρπόν	τὼ κᾰρπώ	τοὺς κᾰρπούς
Vocative	κᾰρπέ	κᾰρπώ	κᾰρποί
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χρῡσόκᾰρπος (khrūsókarpos)

Descendants

• Aromanian: carpo
• Greek: καρπός (karpós)
• Turkish: karpuz

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷerp- (“to turn”); if so, related to Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”) (English wharf).

Noun

κᾰρπός • (karpós) m (genitive κᾰρποῦ); second declension

1. wrist

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κᾰρπός; τοῦ κᾰρποῦ

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰρπός	τὼ κᾰρπώ	οἱ κᾰρποί
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰρποῦ	τοῖν κᾰρποῖν	τῶν κᾰρπῶν
Dative	τῷ κᾰρπῷ	τοῖν κᾰρποῖν	τοῖς κᾰρποῖς
Accusative	τὸν κᾰρπόν	τὼ κᾰρπώ	τοὺς κᾰρπούς
Vocative	κᾰρπέ	κᾰρπώ	κᾰρποί
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: καρπός (karpós)
• New Latin: carpus
  • English: carpus

References

• καρπός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καρπός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καρπός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καρπός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «καρπός» 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
• «καρπός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• καρπός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2590”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cereals idem, page 122.
  • corn idem, page 174.
  • crop idem, page 185.
  • fruit idem, page 347.
  • harvest idem, page 387.
  • produce idem, page 644.
  • standing idem, page 811.
  • wrist idem, page 993.
  • yield idem, page 996.
• Edward A. Roberts (8 April 2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots: Volume I (A-G)^[2], Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 978-1-4931-9108-6, page 323
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill

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Greek

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (karpós, “fruit, grain”).

Noun

καρπός • (karpós) m (plural καρποί)

1. fruit, grain

Declension

declension of καρπός

	singular	plural
nominative	καρπός •	καρποί •
genitive	καρπού •	καρπών •
accusative	καρπό •	καρπούς •
vocative	καρπέ •	καρποί •

Related terms

• see: ακαρπία f (akarpía, “fruitlessness, barrenness”)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

Noun

καρπός • (karpós) m (plural καρποί)

1. (anatomy) wrist

Declension

declension of καρπός

	singular	plural
nominative	καρπός •	καρποί •
genitive	καρπού •	καρπών •
accusative	καρπό •	καρπούς •
vocative	καρπέ •	καρποί •