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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from σκάπτω (skáptō, “to dig”). However, Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ká.pe.tos/ → /ˈka.pe.tos/ → /ˈka.pe.tos/
Noun
κᾰ́πετος • (kápetos) f (genitive κᾰπέτου); second declension
- ditch, trench
- Synonyms: ὄρῠγμᾰ (órugma), τᾰ́φρος (táphros)
- hole, grave
Inflection
Further reading
- “κάπετος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάπετος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κάπετος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κάπετος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάπετος 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) “σκάπετος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1342