κόπρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱókʷr̥. Cognates include Old Irish cechar (“quagmire, slough, bog”), Sanskrit छगण (chagaṇa, “dried cow-dung”), and Lithuanian šikna (“arse”), šikti (“defecate”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.pros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.pros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.pros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.pros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.pros/
Noun
κόπρος • (kópros) f (genitive κόπρου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κόπρος hē kópros |
τὼ κόπρω tṑ kóprō |
αἱ κόπροι hai kóproi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κόπρου tês kóprou |
τοῖν κόπροιν toîn kóproin |
τῶν κόπρων tôn kóprōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κόπρῳ têi kóprōi |
τοῖν κόπροιν toîn kóproin |
ταῖς κόπροις taîs kóprois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κόπρον tḕn kópron |
τὼ κόπρω tṑ kóprō |
τᾱ̀ς κόπρους tā̀s kóprous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόπρε kópre |
κόπρω kóprō |
κόπροι kóproi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “κόπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κόπρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κόπρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κόπρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- κόπρος 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek κόπρος (kópros).
Noun
κόπρος • (kópros) f (uncountable)
Declension
κόπρος
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Noun
κόπρος • (kópros) m (plural κόπροι)
Declension
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the second declension
- Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek uncountable nouns
- Greek feminine nouns
- Greek nouns declining like 'Κύπρος'
- Greek masculine nouns
- Greek nouns declining like 'δρόμος'