καρπήσιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The etymology is unknown. Furnée compares κέρπαθος (kérpathos, “kind of incense”). According to Beekes, the word can hardly be of Indo-European origin; thus, probably from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kar.pɛ̌ː.si.on/ → /karˈpi.si.on/ → /karˈpi.si.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kar.pɛ̌ː.si.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /karˈpe̝.si.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /karˈpi.si.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /karˈpi.si.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /karˈpi.si.on/

Noun

κᾰρπήσῐον • (karpḗsion) n (genitive κᾰρπησῐ́ου); second declension

1. kind of valerian (Valeriana dioscoridis)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κᾰρπήσῐον; τοῦ κᾰρπησῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κᾰρπήσῐον tò karpḗsion	τὼ κᾰρπησῐ́ω tṑ karpēsíō	τᾰ̀ κᾰρπήσῐᾰ tà karpḗsia
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰρπησῐ́ου toû karpēsíou	τοῖν κᾰρπησῐ́οιν toîn karpēsíoin	τῶν κᾰρπησῐ́ων tôn karpēsíōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰρπησῐ́ῳ tôi karpēsíōi	τοῖν κᾰρπησῐ́οιν toîn karpēsíoin	τοῖς κᾰρπησῐ́οις toîs karpēsíois
Accusative	τὸ κᾰρπήσῐον tò karpḗsion	τὼ κᾰρπησῐ́ω tṑ karpēsíō	τᾰ̀ κᾰρπήσῐᾰ tà karpḗsia
Vocative	κᾰρπήσῐον karpḗsion	κᾰρπησῐ́ω karpēsíō	κᾰρπήσῐᾰ karpḗsia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Carpesium

Further reading

• “καρπήσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καρπήσιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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