κῆπος

See also: κήπος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *keh₂po- (“land, garden”). Cognate with Albanian kopsht (“garden”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̂ː.pos/ → /ˈci.pos/ → /ˈci.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛ̂ː.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈke̝.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.pos/

Noun

κῆπος • (kêpos) m (genitive κήπου); second declension

1. garden
2. female genitals
   • Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 2,116, R.D. Hicks, 1925.

     καὶ μέντοι τοὺς Ἀρεοπαγίτας εὐθέως αὐτὸν κελεῦσαι τῆς πόλεως ἐξελθεῖν. ὅτε καὶ Θεόδωρον τὸν ἐπίκλην θεὸν ἐπισκώπτοντα εἰπεῖν, "πόθεν δὲ τοῦτ’ ᾔδει Στίλπων; ἢ ἀνασύρας αὐτῆς τὸν κῆπον ἐθεάσατο;"

     kaì méntoi toùs Areopagítas euthéōs autòn keleûsai tês póleōs exeltheîn. hóte kaì Theódōron tòn epíklēn theòn episkṓptonta eipeîn, "póthen dè toût’ ḗidei Stílpōn? ḕ anasúras autês tòn kêpon etheásato?"

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κῆπος; τοῦ κήπου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῆπος ho kêpos	τὼ κήπω tṑ kḗpō	οἱ κῆποι hoi kêpoi
Genitive	τοῦ κήπου toû kḗpou	τοῖν κήποιν toîn kḗpoin	τῶν κήπων tôn kḗpōn
Dative	τῷ κήπῳ tôi kḗpōi	τοῖν κήποιν toîn kḗpoin	τοῖς κήποις toîs kḗpois
Accusative	τὸν κῆπον tòn kêpon	τὼ κήπω tṑ kḗpō	τοὺς κήπους toùs kḗpous
Vocative	κῆπε kêpe	κήπω kḗpō	κῆποι kêpoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κηπίον (kēpíon)
• κηπίδιον (kēpídion)
• κηπαῖος (kēpaîos)
• κηπεύς (kēpeús)
• κηπεύω (kēpeúō)

Descendants

• Greek: κήπος (kípos)

Further reading

• “κῆπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κῆπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • garden idem, page 354.
  • orchard idem, page 578.
  • park idem, page 593.
  • pleasure ground idem, page 620.
• 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