κηπαία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine form of κηπαῖος (kēpaîos, “of or from a garden”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛː.pǎi̯.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ke̝ˈpɛ.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈpɛ.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈpe.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈpe.a/
Noun
κηπαίᾱ • (kēpaíā) f (genitive κηπαίᾱς); first declension
- garden door, back door
- pink stonecrop (Sedum cepaea)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κηπαίᾱ; τῆς κηπαίᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κηπαίᾱ hē kēpaíā | τὼ κηπαίᾱ tṑ kēpaíā | αἱ κηπαῖαι hai kēpaîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κηπαίᾱς tês kēpaíās | τοῖν κηπαίαιν toîn kēpaíain | τῶν κηπαιῶν tôn kēpaiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κηπαίᾳ têi kēpaíāi | τοῖν κηπαίαιν toîn kēpaíain | ταῖς κηπαίαις taîs kēpaíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κηπαίᾱν tḕn kēpaíān | τὼ κηπαίᾱ tṑ kēpaíā | τᾱ̀ς κηπαίᾱς tā̀s kēpaíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κηπαίᾱ kēpaíā | κηπαίᾱ kēpaíā | κηπαῖαι kēpaîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Cepaea
Further reading
- “κηπαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κηπαία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette