κοπή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of κόπτω (kóptō) +‎ -ή (-ḗ).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.pɛ̌ː/ → /koˈpi/ → /koˈpi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.pɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈpe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈpi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈpi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈpi/

Noun

κοπή • (kopḗ) f (genitive κοπῆς); first declension

1. cutting in pieces
2. slaughter

Declension

First declension of ἡ κοπή; τῆς κοπῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κοπή hē kopḗ	τὼ κοπᾱ́ tṑ kopā́	αἱ κοπαί hai kopaí
Genitive	τῆς κοπῆς tês kopês	τοῖν κοπαῖν toîn kopaîn	τῶν κοπῶν tôn kopôn
Dative	τῇ κοπῇ tēî kopēî	τοῖν κοπαῖν toîn kopaîn	ταῖς κοπαῖς taîs kopaîs
Accusative	τὴν κοπήν tḕn kopḗn	τὼ κοπᾱ́ tṑ kopā́	τᾱ̀ς κοπᾱ́ς tā̀s kopā́s
Vocative	κοπή kopḗ	κοπᾱ́ kopā́	κοπαί kopaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

• 50 CE – 100 CE, Epistle to the Hebrews 7:1:

  Οὗτος γὰρ ὁ Μελχισεδέκ, βασιλεὺς Σαλήμ, ἱερεὺς τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ὑψίστου, ὁ συναντήσας Ἀβραὰμ ὑποστρέφοντι ἀπὸ τῆς κοπῆς τῶν βασιλέων καὶ εὐλογήσας αὐτόν,

  Hoûtos gàr ho Melkhisedék, basileùs Salḗm, hiereùs toû Theoû toû hupsístou, ho sunantḗsas Abraàm hupostréphonti apò tês kopês tôn basiléōn kaì eulogḗsas autón,

  • Translation by KJV

    For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

Derived terms

• ἀνακοπή (anakopḗ)
• ἀνασκοπή (anaskopḗ)
• ἀντικοπή (antikopḗ)
• ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ)
• διακοπή (diakopḗ)
• ἐγκοπή (enkopḗ)
• ἐκκοπή (ekkopḗ)
• ἐπικοπή (epikopḗ)
• ἐπισκοπή (episkopḗ)
• κατακοπή (katakopḗ)
• κατασκοπή (kataskopḗ)
• παρακοπή (parakopḗ)
• περικοπή (perikopḗ)
• προκοπή (prokopḗ)
• προσκοπή (proskopḗ)
• συγκοπή (sunkopḗ)

Related terms

• κοπίς (kopís)

Descendants

• Greek: κοπή (kopí)

Further reading

• κοπή in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κοπή, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “κοπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G2871 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κοπή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κοπή. See κόπτω, κόβω (kóvo, “I cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈpi/
• Hyphenation: κο‧πή
• Homophone: κοπεί (kopeí)

Noun

κοπή • (kopí) f (plural κοπές)

1. cutting, felling, chopping

Declension

Declension of κοπή

	singular	plural
nominative	κοπή (kopí)	κοπές (kopés)
genitive	κοπής (kopís)	κοπών (kopón)
accusative	κοπή (kopí)	κοπές (kopés)
vocative	κοπή (kopí)	κοπές (kopés)

Derived terms

• ξύλο κοπής n (xýlo kopís, “chopping board”)

Related terms

Compounds:

• ανακοπή f (anakopí, “stoppage”)
• αποκοπή f (apokopí)
• διακοπή f (diakopí, “interruption”)
• εγκοπή f (egkopí)
• περικοπή f (perikopí)
• προκοπή f (prokopí, “advancement”)
• συγκοπή f (sygkopí, “cardiac arrest; syncope”)
• τριτανακοπή f (tritanakopí) (law)

Other κοπ- words

• αδιάκοπος (adiákopos, “uninterrupted”)
• άκοπος (ákopos, “uncut; not hard”)
• δίκοπος (díkopos)

• and see: κόβω (kóvo, “cut”) and κόπτω