τράπεζα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• 𐀵𐀟𐀼 ‎(to-pe-za)
• τρᾰ́πεσδᾰ ‎(trápesda) Choral Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tr̥-ped-ih₂- ‎(“having three feet”), from *tr̥- ‎(“three”, combining form) + *pṓds ‎(“foot”). The first element is conventionally made *kʷtur- ‎(“four”, combining form), but Sihler (1995) points out that early tables had three legs, not four.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA: /trá.pez.da/ → /ˈtra.pe.za/ → /ˈtra.pe.za/

• 5th BC Attic: IPA: /trá.pez.da/
• 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /ˈtra.pɛ.za/
• 4th AD Koine: IPA: /ˈtra.pe.za/
• 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /ˈtra.pe.za/
• 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /ˈtra.pe.za/

Noun

τρᾰ́πεζᾰ • ‎(trápeza) f ‎(genitive τρᾰπέζης); first declension

1. a table

Inflection

First declension of τρᾰ́πεζᾰ, τρᾰπέζης

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τρᾰ́πεζᾰ	τρᾰπέζᾱ	τρᾰ́πεζαι
Genitive	τρᾰπέζης	τρᾰπέζαιν	τρᾰπεζῶν
Dative	τρᾰπέζῃ	τρᾰπέζαιν	τρᾰπέζαις
Accusative	τρᾰ́πεζᾰν	τρᾰπέζᾱ	τρᾰπέζᾱς
Vocative	τρᾰ́πεζᾰ	τρᾰπέζᾱ	τρᾰ́πεζαι
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Derived terms

Terms derived from τράπεζα

• τρᾰπεζεῖον ‎(trapezeîon)
• τρᾰπεζείτης ‎(trapezeítēs)
• τρᾰπεζεύς ‎(trapezeús)
• τρᾰπεζήεις ‎(trapezḗeis)
• τρᾰπεζήτᾱς ‎(trapezḗtās)
• τρᾰπεζῐ́ᾱ ‎(trapezíā)
• τρᾰπεζίᾱς ‎(trapezíās)
• τρᾰπέζῐον ‎(trapézion)
• τρᾰπεζῑτείᾱ ‎(trapezīteíā)
• τρᾰπεζῑτεύω ‎(trapezīteúō)
• τρᾰπεζῑ́της ‎(trapezī́tēs)

• τρᾰπεζῑτῐκός ‎(trapezītikós)
• τρᾰπεζοειδής ‎(trapezoeidḗs)
• τρᾰπεζοκόμος ‎(trapezokómos)
• τρᾰπεζόκορος ‎(trapezókoros)
• τρᾰπεζολοιχός ‎(trapezoloikhós)
• τρᾰπεζοπίναξ ‎(trapezopínax)
• τρᾰπεζοποιέω ‎(trapezopoiéō)
• τρᾰπεζοποιῐ́ᾱ ‎(trapezopoiíā)
• τρᾰπεζοποιός ‎(trapezopoiós)
• τρᾰπεζορήτωρ ‎(trapezorḗtōr)

• τρᾰπεζότης ‎(trapezótēs)
• Τρᾰπεζούντῐος ‎(Trapezoúntios)
• Τρᾰπεζοῦς ‎(Trapezoûs)
• τρᾰπεζοφόρος ‎(trapezophóros)
• τρᾰπεζόω ‎(trapezóō)
• τρᾰπεζώ ‎(trapezṓ)
• τρᾰπεζώδης ‎(trapezṓdēs)
• τρᾰπέζωμᾰ ‎(trapézōma)
• τρᾰπεζωνῐ́ᾱ ‎(trapezōníā)
• τρᾰπέζωσῐς ‎(trapézōsis)

References

• τράπεζα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τράπεζα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τράπεζα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «τράπεζα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «τράπεζα» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τράπεζα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5132”, 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.
  • bank idem, page 61.
  • board idem, page 86.
  • counter idem, page 177.
  • meal idem, page 519.
  • table idem, page 851.

• 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

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

τράπεζα • ‎(trápeza) f ‎(plural τράπεζες)

1. (finance) bank

Declension

declension of τράπεζα

	singular	plural
nominative	τράπεζα	τράπεζες
genitive	τράπεζας	τραπεζών
accusative	τράπεζα	τράπεζες
vocative	τράπεζα	τράπεζες

Related terms

• Αγία Τράπεζα f ‎(Agía Trápeza, “altar”)
• τράπεζα αίματος f ‎(trápeza aímatos, “blood bank”)

See also

• compare with: τραπέζι n ‎(trapézi, “table”)