καρπός

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“pluck, harvest”). Compare Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest, autumn”), Proto-Slavic *čerpti (“to scoop, draw”) and Latin carpō (“to pick”), as well as Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”), derived from the ultimate root *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Noun

κᾰρπός • (karpós) m (genitive κᾰρποῦ); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric, Koine)

1. fruit, grain, produce, harvest
2. the product of something: children (fruit of the body), poetry (fruit of the mind), profit

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Aromanian: carpo
• → Coptic: ⲕⲁⲣⲡⲟⲥ (karpos)
• Greek: καρπός (karpós)
• Mariupol Greek: карпо́ (karpó)
• → Turkish: karpuz

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷerp- (“to turn”); if so, related to Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”) (English wharf).

Noun

κᾰρπός • (karpós) m (genitive κᾰρποῦ); second declension

1. wrist

Declension

Descendants

• Greek: καρπός (karpós)
• New Latin: carpus
  • English: carpus

References

• “καρπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καρπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καρπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “καρπός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• καρπός 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
• καρπός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “καρπός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2590 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cereals idem, page 122.
  • corn idem, page 174.
  • crop idem, page 185.
  • fruit idem, page 347.
  • harvest idem, page 387.
  • produce idem, page 644.
  • standing idem, page 811.
  • wrist idem, page 993.
  • yield idem, page 996.
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• Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• καρπός - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈpos/

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (karpós, “fruit, grain”).

Noun

καρπός • (karpós) m (plural καρποί)

1. fruit, grain

Declension

Related terms

• see: ακαρπία f (akarpía, “fruitlessness, barrenness”)

Descendants

→ Aromanian: carpo.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

Noun

καρπός • (karpós) m (plural καρποί)

1. (anatomy) wrist

Declension

Related terms

• φρούτο (froúto, “fruit”)

Further reading

• καρπός - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.