κάπη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kápā, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to seize, to understand, to grasp”), the same root of κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.pɛː/ → /ˈka.pi/ → /ˈka.pi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.pɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi/

Noun

κᾰ́πη • (kápē) f (genitive κᾰ́πης); first declension

1. crib, manger

   Synonym: φάτνη (phátnē)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κᾰ́πη; τῆς κᾰ́πης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰ́πη hē kápē	τὼ κᾰ́πᾱ tṑ kápā	αἱ κᾰ́παι hai kápai
Genitive	τῆς κᾰ́πης tês kápēs	τοῖν κᾰ́παιν toîn kápain	τῶν κᾰπῶν tôn kapôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰ́πῃ têi kápēi	τοῖν κᾰ́παιν toîn kápain	ταῖς κᾰ́παις taîs kápais
Accusative	τὴν κᾰ́πην tḕn kápēn	τὼ κᾰ́πᾱ tṑ kápā	τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́πᾱς tā̀s kápās
Vocative	κᾰ́πη kápē	κᾰ́πᾱ kápā	κᾰ́παι kápai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κάπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κάπη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κάπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κάπη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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