κύπρος
See also: Κύπρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Identical to Hebrew כֹּפֶר / כּוֺפֶר (kōp̱er, “pitch, tar; henna”), Aramaic כּוּפְרָא / ܭܽܘܦܪܳܐ (kūp̄rā, “pitch, tar; henna”), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎔𐎗 (kpr, “henna”), Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀞𐀫 (ku-pa-ro, “debatable plant”), Coptic ⲕⲟⲩⲡⲣ (koupr, “henna”), Demotic qwpr (“henna”), Egyptian qwpr (a given name), Dongolawi kofrē (“henna”), all ultimately from Akkadian 𒇒𒌓𒀀 (kupru, “bitumen, pitch”) from Akkadian 𒅗𒉺𒊒 (kapāru, “to smear, to daub on”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ký.pros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.pros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.pros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.pros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.pros/
Noun
κῠ́προς • (kúpros) f (genitive κῠ́πρου); second declension
- henna (Lawsonia inermis plant and dye)
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῠ́προς hē kúpros |
τὼ κῠ́πρω tṑ kúprō |
αἱ κῠ́προι hai kúproi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῠ́πρου tês kúprou |
τοῖν κῠ́προιν toîn kúproin |
τῶν κῠ́πρων tôn kúprōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῠ́πρῳ têi kúprōi |
τοῖν κῠ́προιν toîn kúproin |
ταῖς κῠ́προις taîs kúprois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῠ́προν tḕn kúpron |
τὼ κῠ́πρω tṑ kúprō |
τᾱ̀ς κῠ́πρους tā̀s kúprous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῠ́πρε kúpre |
κῠ́πρω kúprō |
κῠ́προι kúproi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κύπρινος (kúprinos)
Descendants
- → Latin: cyprus
Further reading
- “κύπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κύπρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[1] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 212–213
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[2] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 218–225
- The template Template:R:uga:Watson:2004 does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2004) “A Botanical Snapshot of Ugaritic”, in Aula Orientalis[3], volume 22, number 1, Barcelona, page 122 - Olmo Lete, Gregorio del with Sanmartín, Joaquín and Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015) “kpr, kprt”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 448
- Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, pages 84–85
- Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001), The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago[4], volume Q (04.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, pages 11–12
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Akkadian
- 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
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