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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kápros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱapros (“male hooved animal”), possibly from *ḱapr̥ (“penis”). Cognate with Latin caper (“goat”), Old Irish gabor (“goat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ká.pros/ → /ˈka.pros/ → /ˈka.pros/
Noun
κᾰ́προς • (kápros) m (genitive κᾰ́πρου); second declension
- boar, especially wild boar
- boarfish (Capros aper)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “κάπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κάπρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κάπρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάπρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κάπρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- boar idem, page 86.
- hog idem, page 402.
Greek
Noun
κάπρος • (kápros) m (plural κάπροι)
- wild boar
- boar, male pig
Declension
Synonyms
See also
- see: χοίρος m (choíros, “pig”)
Further reading