κυψέλη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κῠψάλη (kupsálē)
Etymology
Not related to κύπη (kúpē, “kind of ship”), nor derived from κύπτω (kúptō, “to bend, stoop”). According to Beekes, clearly a Pre-Greek word, given the variant.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kyp.sé.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kypˈse.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cypˈse.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cypˈse.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /cipˈse.li/
Noun
κῠψέλη • (kupsélē) f (genitive κῠψέλης); first declension
- chest, box, any hollow vessel
- beehive, hive
- (anatomy) hollow of the ear
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κῠψέλη; τῆς κῠψέλης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῠψέλη hē kupsélē | τὼ κῠψέλᾱ tṑ kupsélā | αἱ κῠψέλαι hai kupsélai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῠψέλης tês kupsélēs | τοῖν κῠψέλαιν toîn kupsélain | τῶν κῠψελῶν tôn kupselôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῠψέλῃ têi kupsélēi | τοῖν κῠψέλαιν toîn kupsélain | ταῖς κῠψέλαις taîs kupsélais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῠψέλην tḕn kupsélēn | τὼ κῠψέλᾱ tṑ kupsélā | τᾱ̀ς κῠψέλᾱς tā̀s kupsélās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῠψέλη kupsélē | κῠψέλᾱ kupsélā | κῠψέλαι kupsélai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κῠψέλῐον (kupsélion)
- κῠψελῐ́ς (kupselís)
- κῠψελόβῠστος (kupselóbustos)
Descendants
- Greek: κυψέλη (kypséli)
Further reading
- “κυψέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κυψέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κυψέλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κυψέλη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 811
Greek
Noun
κυψέλη • (kypséli) f (plural κυψέλες)
- beehive, hive
Declension
declension of κυψέλη
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | κυψέλη • | κυψέλες • |
genitive | κυψέλης • | κυψελών • |
accusative | κυψέλη • | κυψέλες • |
vocative | κυψέλη • | κυψέλες • |
Synonyms
- μελίσσι n (melíssi, “beehive, bee colony”)
See also
- κηρήθρα f (kiríthra, “beeswax, honeycomb”)
- κυψελίδα f (kypselída, “ear wax; alveolus”)
Further reading
κυψέλη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el