τρῦπα

Ancient Greek

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *trewH-p-, a p-extension of a putative *trewH- (“to rub”), and cognate with τρύω (trúō, “to wear down”), τρυπάω (trupáō, “to bore”), and Proto-Slavic *tryti (“to rub”).^[1] A connection with Lithuanian trupė́ti (“to crumble”) is less likely.

τρῦπα • (trûpa) f (genitive τρῦπας); first declension

First declension of ἡ τρῦπᾰ; τῆς τρῡ́πᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τρῦπᾰ hē trûpă	τὼ τρῡ́πᾱ tṑ trū́pā	αἱ τρῦπαι hai trûpai
Genitive	τῆς τρῡ́πᾱς tês trū́pās	τοῖν τρῡ́παιν toîn trū́pain	τῶν τρῡπῶν tôn trūpôn
Dative	τῇ τρῡ́πᾳ tēî trū́pāi	τοῖν τρῡ́παιν toîn trū́pain	ταῖς τρῡ́παις taîs trū́pais
Accusative	τὴν τρῦπᾰν tḕn trûpăn	τὼ τρῡ́πᾱ tṑ trū́pā	τᾱ̀ς τρῡ́πᾱς tā̀s trū́pās
Vocative	τρῦπᾰ trûpă	τρῡ́πᾱ trū́pā	τρῦπαι trûpai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “τρῦπα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1513