κῆπος

• κᾶπος (kâpos) — Doric

From Proto-Indo-European *keh₂po- (“land, garden”), which seems to be from *keh₂p- (“to seize”) (though Beekes is skeptical of this relation and tentatively separates the two). Almost identical in formation (except for the ending) to Proto-Germanic *hōbō (“piece of land”) (< *keh₂p-h₂); Albanian kopsht (“garden”) is another cognate. More distant connections include Latin capiō (“to seize, capture”), while κάπετος (kápetos, “ditch, trench”) and Old High German habaro (“oats”) are probably not related.^[1]

κῆπος • (kêpos) m (genitive κήπου); second declension

1. garden, orchard or plantation
2. enclosure for the Olympic games
3. sort of fashion of cropping the hair
4. female genitals
   • Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 2,116, R.D. Hicks, 1925.

     καὶ μέντοι τοὺς Ἀρεοπαγίτας εὐθέως αὐτὸν κελεῦσαι τῆς πόλεως ἐξελθεῖν. ὅτε καὶ Θεόδωρον τὸν ἐπίκλην θεὸν ἐπισκώπτοντα εἰπεῖν, “πόθεν δὲ τοῦτ’ ᾔδει Στίλπων; ἢ ἀνασύρας αὐτῆς τὸν κῆπον ἐθεάσατο;”

     kaì méntoi toùs Areopagítas euthéōs autòn keleûsai tês póleōs exeltheîn. hóte kaì Theódōron tòn epíklēn theòn episkṓptonta eipeîn, “póthen dè toût’ ḗidei Stílpōn? ḕ anasúras autês tòn kêpon etheásato?”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   Synonyms: δορίαλλος (doríallos), σᾰ́ρᾰβος (sárabos)

• Greek: κήπος (kípos)

• “κῆπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κῆπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κῆπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • garden idem, page 354.
  • orchard idem, page 578.
  • park idem, page 593.
  • pleasure ground idem, page 620.