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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kṓpā, from Proto-Indo-European *kóh₂p-eh₂, from the root *kap- (“seize, grab”), which also gives κάπτω (káptō, “gulp down”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̌ː.pɛː/ → /ˈko.pi/ → /ˈko.pi/
Noun
κώπη • (kṓpē) f (genitive κώπης); first declension
- a handle (e.g. of an oar)
Inflection
References
- “κώπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κώπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κώπη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κώπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κώπη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “κώπη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011