δόρπον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to Albanian darkë (“evening meal”) but further connections are unknown.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dór.pon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈdor.pon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈðor.pon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈðor.pon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈðor.pon/
Noun
δόρπον • (dórpon) n (genitive δόρπου); second declension
(Epic, Doric)
- evening meal
- (later Epic) food, meal
Declension
Second declension of δόρπον; δόρπου (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | δόρπον dórpon | δόρπω dórpō | δόρπᾰ dórpa | ||||||||||
Genitive | δόρπου / δορποῖο / δόρποιο / δορπόο / δόρποο dórpou / dorpoîo / dórpoio / dorpóo / dórpoo | δόρποιῐν dórpoiin | δόρπων dórpōn | ||||||||||
Dative | δόρπῳ dórpōi | δόρποιῐν dórpoiin | δόρποισῐ / δόρποισῐν / δόρποις dórpoisi(n) / dórpois | ||||||||||
Accusative | δόρπον dórpon | δόρπω dórpō | δόρπᾰ dórpa | ||||||||||
Vocative | δόρπον dórpon | δόρπω dórpō | δόρπᾰ dórpa | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δόρπιον (dórpion)
- δορπήϊα (dorpḗïa)
- δορπέω (dorpéō)
- δορπηστός (dorpēstós)
Further reading
- δόρπον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- δόρπον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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