κόφινος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly Semitic or Hurrian, compare κόφος (kóphos, “basket-load”) and Arabic قُفَّة (quffa, “large wicker-basket”) and Arabic قَفِيز (qafīz, “a dry measure”) for a picture of the frequency of container names with guttural onset leading over an open vowel to a labial plosive or fricative.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.pʰi.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.pʰi.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.ɸi.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.fi.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.fi.nos/
Noun
κόφῐνος • (kóphinos) m (genitive κοφῐ́νου); second declension
- basket
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κόφῐνος; τοῦ κοφῐ́νου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κόφῐνος ho kóphinos | τὼ κοφῐ́νω tṑ kophínō | οἱ κόφῐνοι hoi kóphinoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κοφῐ́νου toû kophínou | τοῖν κοφῐ́νοιν toîn kophínoin | τῶν κοφῐ́νων tôn kophínōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κοφῐ́νῳ tôi kophínōi | τοῖν κοφῐ́νοιν toîn kophínoin | τοῖς κοφῐ́νοις toîs kophínois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόφῐνον tòn kóphinon | τὼ κοφῐ́νω tṑ kophínō | τοὺς κοφῐ́νους toùs kophínous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόφῐνε kóphine | κοφῐ́νω kophínō | κόφῐνοι kóphinoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: כפוני (“basket”)
- → Latin: cophinus (see there for further descendants)
- → English: coffin
Further reading
- “κόφινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόφινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόφινος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2894 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- basket idem, page 64.
- 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