κρώπιον

κρώπιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to pluck, to harvest”) and so cognate with Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest”), Latin carpō (“I pluck”) and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”). Beekes, instead, claims that the word must be of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krɔ̌ː.pi.on/ → /ˈkro.pi.on/ → /ˈkro.pi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krɔ̌ː.pi.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.pi.on/

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Noun

κρώπιον • (krṓpion) n (genitive κρωπίου); second declension

1. A scythe, a billhook

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κρώπιον; τοῦ κρωπίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρώπιον tò krṓpion	τὼ κρωπίω tṑ krōpíō	τᾰ̀ κρώπιᾰ tà krṓpia
Genitive	τοῦ κρωπίου toû krōpíou	τοῖν κρωπίοιν toîn krōpíoin	τῶν κρωπίων tôn krōpíōn
Dative	τῷ κρωπίῳ tôi krōpíōi	τοῖν κρωπίοιν toîn krōpíoin	τοῖς κρωπίοις toîs krōpíois
Accusative	τὸ κρώπιον tò krṓpion	τὼ κρωπίω tṑ krōpíō	τᾰ̀ κρώπιᾰ tà krṓpia
Vocative	κρώπιον krṓpion	κρωπίω krōpíō	κρώπιᾰ krṓpia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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