κύπη – Ancient Greek noun declension

Noun: κύπη
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine

Nominative

Genitive

Dative

Accusative

Vocative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like κύπη

κύπη,

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. See: English Nouns 'hive', Latin Nouns 'cūpa'.

Verbs referencing "κύπη"

English Nouns hive.

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