κάπηλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Beekes finds improbable a derivation from κάπη (kápē, “crib, manger”). Maybe related to Latin caupō (“innkeeper”) or alternatively from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.pɛː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.pe̝.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.pi.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.pi.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.pi.los/
Noun
κάπηλος • (kápēlos) m or f (genitive κᾰπήλου); second declension
- retail dealer, huckster
- innkeeper
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́πηλος; τοῦ, τῆς κᾰπήλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́πηλος ho, hē kápēlos | τὼ κᾰπήλω tṑ kapḗlō | οἱ, αἱ κᾰ́πηλοι hoi, hai kápēloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς κᾰπήλου toû, tês kapḗlou | τοῖν κᾰπήλοιν toîn kapḗloin | τῶν κᾰπήλων tôn kapḗlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ κᾰπήλῳ tôi, têi kapḗlōi | τοῖν κᾰπήλοιν toîn kapḗloin | τοῖς, ταῖς κᾰπήλοις toîs, taîs kapḗlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν κᾰ́πηλον tòn, tḕn kápēlon | τὼ κᾰπήλω tṑ kapḗlō | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κᾰπήλους toùs, tā̀s kapḗlous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́πηλε kápēle | κᾰπήλω kapḗlō | κᾰ́πηλοι kápēloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βῐβλῐοκᾰ́πηλος (bibliokápēlos)
- καπηλεία (kapēleía)
- καπηλεῖον (kapēleîon)
- καπηλείς (kapēleís)
- καπηλευτικός (kapēleutikós)
- καπηλεύω (kapēleúō)
- καπηλικός (kapēlikós)
- καπήλιον (kapḗlion)
- καπηλογείτων (kapēlogeítōn)
- καπηλοδύτης (kapēlodútēs)
- πᾰλῐγκᾰ́πηλος (palinkápēlos)
Descendants
- Greek: κάπηλος (kápilos)
Further reading
- “κάπηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάπηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάπηλος 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