κύψελος
See also: Κύψελος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Clearly a Pre-Greek word, like κυψέλη (kupsélē, “beehive”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kýp.se.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkyp.se.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcyp.se.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcyp.se.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcip.se.los/
Noun
κῠ́ψελος • (kúpselos) m (genitive κῠψέλου); second declension
- swift (Apus apus)
- Synonym: ἄπους (ápous)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κῠ́ψελος; τοῦ κῠψέλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κῠ́ψελος ho kúpselos | τὼ κῠψέλω tṑ kupsélō | οἱ κῠ́ψελοι hoi kúpseloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῠψέλου toû kupsélou | τοῖν κῠψέλοιν toîn kupséloin | τῶν κῠψέλων tôn kupsélōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῠψέλῳ tôi kupsélōi | τοῖν κῠψέλοιν toîn kupséloin | τοῖς κῠψέλοις toîs kupsélois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κῠ́ψελον tòn kúpselon | τὼ κῠψέλω tṑ kupsélō | τοὺς κῠψέλους toùs kupsélous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῠ́ψελε kúpsele | κῠψέλω kupsélō | κῠ́ψελοι kúpseloi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κύψελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κύψελος 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