κάρπασος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κάλπᾰσος (kálpasos)
Etymology
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כַּרְפַּס (karpás, “a type of expensive fabric made of cotton”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kár.pa.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkar.pa.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkar.pa.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkar.pa.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkar.pa.sos/
Noun
κάρπᾰσος • (kárpasos) f (genitive καρπάσου, plural (neuter) κάρπᾰσᾰ); second declension
- flax (Linum usitatissimum or Linum bienne)
- cotton
Declension
Feminine singular:
Second declension of ἡ κᾰ́ρπᾰσος; τῆς κᾰρπᾰ́σου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κᾰ́ρπᾰσος hē kárpasos | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κᾰρπᾰ́σου tês karpásou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κᾰρπᾰ́σῳ têi karpásōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κᾰ́ρπᾰσον tḕn kárpason | ||||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́ρπᾰσε kárpase | ||||||||||||
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Neuter plural:
Second declension of τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρπᾰσοι; τῶν κᾰρπᾰ́σων (Attic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρπᾰσοι tà kárpasoi | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν κᾰρπᾰ́σων tôn karpásōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τοῖς κᾰρπᾰ́σοις toîs karpásois | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾰ̀ κᾰρπᾰ́σους tà karpásous | ||||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́ρπᾰσοι kárpasoi | ||||||||||||
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Related terms
- κάρπασον (kárpason, “white hellebore, Veratrum album”)
- καρπησία (karpēsía)
- ὀποκάρπασον (opokárpason)
Further reading
- “κάρπασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάρπασος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette