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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Derived from a nominal base form, like κνημίς (knēmís) and χειρίς (kheirís), or perhaps this word just took over their ending. The technical meaning suggests a loan. The connection with words for shoe, like Lithuanian kurpe (“shoes”) is formally impeccable, but is rejected by Fraenkel. According to Beekes, the suffix -ῖδ- suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krɛː.pís/ → /kriˈpis/ → /kriˈpis/
Noun
κρηπῐ́ς • (krēpís) f (genitive κρηπῖδος); third declension
- man's high boot, half-boot
- Synonym: ἁρπίς (harpís)
- soldier's boot
- shoe-shaped cake
- (figuratively) groundwork, foundation, basement of a building
- walled edge of a river or canal, quay
- abutment of a bridge
- tiers of seats in a theatre
- oxtongue (Helminthotheca echioides)
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Further reading
- “κρηπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρηπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κρηπίς 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