κάππαρις
Ancient Greek
![](Images/wiktionary/Kapparis_172v_Dioscoride_Vienne.png.webp)
κάππαρις illustration in the Vienna Dioscurides
Etymology
The word has been connected with Persian کبر (kabar, “caper”), suggesting an Oriental origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /káp.pa.ris/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkap.pa.ris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkap.pa.ris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkap.pa.ris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.pa.ris/
Noun
κάππαρις • (kápparis) f (genitive καππάρεως); third declension
- caper (Capparis spinosa)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ κάππαρῐς; τῆς καππάρεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κάππαρῐς hē kápparis | τὼ καππάρει tṑ kappárei | αἱ καππάρεις hai kappáreis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς καππάρεως tês kappáreōs | τοῖν καππαρέοιν toîn kapparéoin | τῶν καππάρεων tôn kappáreōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ καππάρει têi kappárei | τοῖν καππαρέοιν toîn kapparéoin | ταῖς καππάρεσῐ / καππάρεσῐν taîs kappáresi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κάππαρῐν tḕn kápparin | τὼ καππάρει tṑ kappárei | τᾱ̀ς καππάρεις tā̀s kappáreis | ||||||||||
Vocative | κάππαρῐ káppari | καππάρει kappárei | καππάρεις kappáreis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- καππάριον (kappárion)
- κάππαρος (kápparos)
Descendants
- Greek: κάπαρη (kápari)
- → Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܟܦܪ (kappar, kappār), ܩܦܪ (qappar, qappār)
- → Arabic: كَبَر (kabar), كَبَّار (kabbār), قَبَّار (qabbār)
- → Middle Armenian: կապպար (kappar)
- → Latin: capparis
- → English: caper
- → Italian: cappero
- → Translingual: Capparis
- → Ottoman Turkish: كبره (gebere)
- Turkish: gebre
- → Armenian: գաբարա (gabara)
References
- “κάππαρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάππαρις 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