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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/
Noun
κᾰ́πη • (kápē) f (genitive κᾰ́πης); first declension
- crib, manger
- Synonym: φάτνη (phátnē)
Inflection
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