καπνός
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kapnós, from Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”); see also Lithuanian kūpėti (“to boil over”), Old Church Slavonic кꙑпѣти (kypěti, “to boil”), Sanskrit कुप्यति (kupyati, “become agitated, bubbles up”), Latin cupiō.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.pnós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈpnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈpnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈpnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈpnos/
Noun
καπνός • (kapnós) m (genitive καπνοῦ); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κᾰπνός ho kapnós |
τὼ κᾰπνώ tṑ kapnṓ |
οἱ κᾰπνοί hoi kapnoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾰπνοῦ toû kapnoû |
τοῖν κᾰπνοῖν toîn kapnoîn |
τῶν κᾰπνῶν tôn kapnôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾰπνῷ tôi kapnôi |
τοῖν κᾰπνοῖν toîn kapnoîn |
τοῖς κᾰπνοῖς toîs kapnoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κᾰπνόν tòn kapnón |
τὼ κᾰπνώ tṑ kapnṓ |
τοὺς κᾰπνούς toùs kapnoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰπνέ kapné |
κᾰπνώ kapnṓ |
κᾰπνοί kapnoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “καπνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καπνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “καπνός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- καπνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- καπνός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “καπνός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2586 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
References
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”).
Pronunciation
Noun
καπνός • (kapnós) m (plural καπνοί)
- smoke
- δεν υπάρχει καπνός χωρίς φωτιά ― den ypárchei kapnós chorís fotiá ― there is no smoke without fire
- tobacco (plant and its products)
Declension
declension of καπνός
Related terms
- see: καπνίζω (kapnízo, “to smoke”)
See also
Further reading
καπνός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
