κύπη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”), perhaps of substrate origin. Cognate with Old English hȳf (modern English hive), Latin cūpa (“cup”), and Sanskrit कूप (kūpa, “well, hollow, vat”). The word is attested only in Hesychius’ lexicon, so the quantity of the υ cannot be determined, but the long vowels in the Germanic, Latin, and Sanskrit words suggest the Greek may have a long vowel as well. On the other hand, the υ in the presumably related term κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker, goblet”) is short.

Pronunciation

(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.pi/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.pi/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.pi/

Noun

κύπη • (kúpē) f (genitive κύπης); first declension

some kind of ship
some kind of hut

Declension

No inflected forms are attested, but the word can be assumed to be a regular first-declension feminine noun:

First declension of ἡ κῡ́πη; τῆς κῡ́πης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῡ́πη hē kū́pē	τὼ κῡ́πᾱ tṑ kū́pā	αἱ κῦπαι hai kûpai
Genitive	τῆς κῡ́πης tês kū́pēs	τοῖν κῡ́παιν toîn kū́pain	τῶν κῡπῶν tôn kūpôn
Dative	τῇ κῡ́πῃ tēî kū́pēi	τοῖν κῡ́παιν toîn kū́pain	ταῖς κῡ́παις taîs kū́pais
Accusative	τὴν κῡ́πην tḕn kū́pēn	τὼ κῡ́πᾱ tṑ kū́pā	τᾱ̀ς κῡ́πᾱς tā̀s kū́pās
Vocative	κῡ́πη kū́pē	κῡ́πᾱ kū́pā	κῦπαι kûpai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Translingual: Cypa