κόπρος

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱókʷ-ro-s, thematicized from *ḱókʷr̥ (“excrement”). Cognates include Old Irish cechar (“quagmire, slough, bog”), Sanskrit शकृत् (śakṛt, “dung”), and Lithuanian šiknà (“arse”), šìkti (“defecate”).^[1]

κόπρος • (kópros) f (genitive κόπρου); second declension

1. dung, ordure, excrement
2. (especially in husbandry) dung, manure
   • 8th c. BCE, Homer, Odyssey, 9.329–330 (transl. A.T. Murray):

     καὶ τὸ μὲν εὖ κατέθηκα κατακρύψας ὑπὸ κόπρῳ, ἥ ῥα κατὰ σπείους κέχυτο μεγάλ’ ἤλιθα πολλή·

     kaì tò mèn eû katéthēka katakrúpsas hupò kóprōi, hḗ rha katà speíous kékhuto megál’ ḗlitha pollḗ;

     Then I laid it carefully away, hiding it beneath the dung, which lay in great heaps throughout the cave.

3. (in general) filth, dirt
4. dunghill, byre

• → English: copro-
• Greek: κόπρος (kópros)
• → Italian: copro-

• “κόπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κόπρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κόπρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόπρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κόπρος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dung idem, page 256.
  • excrement idem, page 289.
  • manure idem, page 513.
  • ordure idem, page 579.

From Ancient Greek κόπρος (kópros).

κόπρος • (kópros) f (uncountable)

1. faeces, shit, manure
2. dirt

• κόπρανα n pl (kóprana, “faeces”)
• κοπριά f (kopriá, “dung”)

κόπρος • (kópros) m (plural κόπροι)

1. stray dog