κάπρος
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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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.pros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.pros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.pros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.pros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.pros/
Noun
κᾰ́προς • (kápros) m (genitive κᾰ́πρου); second declension
- boar, especially wild boar
- boarfish (Capros aper)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κᾰ́προς ho kápros |
τὼ κᾰ́πρω tṑ káprō |
οἱ κᾰ́προι hoi káproi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾰ́πρου toû káprou |
τοῖν κᾰ́προιν toîn káproin |
τῶν κᾰ́πρων tôn káprōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾰ́πρῳ tôi káprōi |
τοῖν κᾰ́προιν toîn káproin |
τοῖς κᾰ́προις toîs káprois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κᾰ́προν tòn kápron |
τὼ κᾰ́πρω tṑ káprō |
τοὺς κᾰ́πρους toùs káprous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰ́πρε kápre |
κᾰ́πρω káprō |
κᾰ́προι káproi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Capros
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.
Greek
Noun
κάπρος • (kápros) m (plural κάπροι)
Declension
Declension of κάπρος
Synonyms
- αγριόχοιρος m (agrióchoiros)
See also
- see: χοίρος m (choíros, “pig”)
Further reading
κάπρος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
