Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
κυπρῖνος
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
See also: κύπρινος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Other names for this fish, like Sanskrit शफर (śaphara), Lithuanian šāpalas and Late Latin carpa, are not related. The suffix -ῖν- is well-known in Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ky.prîː.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kyˈpri.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cyˈpri.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cyˈpri.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈpri.nos/
Noun
κῠπρῖνος • (kŭprînos) m (genitive κῠπρῑ́νου); second declension
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “κυπρῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κυπρῖνος 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
Remove ads
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads