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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Without a certain explanation. Often connected with Breton kelorn (“bucket”) but this does not explain the -α-. Furnée connects it with Ancient Greek κελέβη (kelébē), for which there seems no reason. Possibly from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kál.pis/ → /ˈkal.pis/ → /ˈkal.pis/
Noun
κᾰ́λπῐς • (kálpis) f (genitive κᾰ́λπῐδος); third declension
- pitcher
- kind of cup
- box for unguents
- urn for drawing lots
- cinerary urn
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Further reading
- “κάλπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάλπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κάλπις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κάλπις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάλπις 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