κόπανον

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κόπτω (kóptō, “to strike, smite”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.pa.non/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.pa.non/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.pa.non/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.pa.non/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.pa.non/

Noun

κόπᾰνον • (kópanon) n (genitive κοπᾰ́νου); second declension

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Synonyms: ἄκμων (ákmōn), ἀλετρίβανος (aletríbanos), δοῖδυξ (doîdux), λᾰ́κτῐς (láktis), ναγεύς (nageús), ὕπερος (húperos)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κόπᾰνον; τοῦ κοπᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κόπᾰνον tò kópanon	τὼ κοπᾰ́νω tṑ kopánō	τᾰ̀ κόπᾰνᾰ tà kópana
Genitive	τοῦ κοπᾰ́νου toû kopánou	τοῖν κοπᾰ́νοιν toîn kopánoin	τῶν κοπᾰ́νων tôn kopánōn
Dative	τῷ κοπᾰ́νῳ tôi kopánōi	τοῖν κοπᾰ́νοιν toîn kopánoin	τοῖς κοπᾰ́νοις toîs kopánois
Accusative	τὸ κόπᾰνον tò kópanon	τὼ κοπᾰ́νω tṑ kopánō	τᾰ̀ κόπᾰνᾰ tà kópana
Vocative	κόπᾰνον kópanon	κοπᾰ́νω kopánō	κόπᾰνᾰ kópana
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἐπικόπανον (epikópanon)
κοπανίζω (kopanízō)
κοπανισμός (kopanismós)
κοπανιστήριον (kopanistḗrion)

Descendants

Greek: κόπανος (kópanos), κόπανο (kópano)
- → Albanian: kopan
- → Aromanian: copan
- → Bulgarian: ко́пан (kópan)
  - → Romanian: copan
- → Macedonian: копан (kopan)
- → Megleno-Romanian: cupan
→ Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: קופנ (/⁠qwpn⁠/, “mallet”)

Further reading

“κόπανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κόπανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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

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