καπίθη

καπίθη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Persian *kapiča- (literally “holder, something containing”)[1], cognate with Ancient Greek καπέτις (kapétis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.pí.tʰɛː/ → /kaˈpi.θi/ → /kaˈpi.θi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.pí.tʰɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈpi.tʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpi.θi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpi.θi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈpi.θi/

Noun

κᾰπῐ́θη • (kapíthē) f (genitive κᾰπῐ́θης); first declension

1. Persian unit of measure containing two choenixes

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κᾰπῐ́θη; τῆς κᾰπῐ́θης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰπῐ́θη hē kapíthē	τὼ κᾰπῐ́θᾱ tṑ kapíthā	αἱ κᾰπῐ́θαι hai kapíthai
Genitive	τῆς κᾰπῐ́θης tês kapíthēs	τοῖν κᾰπῐ́θαιν toîn kapíthain	τῶν κᾰπῐθῶν tôn kapithôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰπῐ́θῃ têi kapíthēi	τοῖν κᾰπῐ́θαιν toîn kapíthain	ταῖς κᾰπῐ́θαις taîs kapíthais
Accusative	τὴν κᾰπῐ́θην tḕn kapíthēn	τὼ κᾰπῐ́θᾱ tṑ kapíthā	τᾱ̀ς κᾰπῐ́θᾱς tā̀s kapíthās
Vocative	κᾰπῐ́θη kapíthē	κᾰπῐ́θᾱ kapíthā	κᾰπῐ́θαι kapíthai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “καπίθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καπίθη 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

1. Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 449