κυψέλη
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- κῠψάλη (kupsálē)
Etymology
[edit]Not related to κύπη (kúpē, “kind of ship”), nor derived from κύπτω (kúptō, “to bend, stoop”). According to Beekes, clearly a Pre-Greek word, given the variant.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kyp.sé.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kypˈse.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cypˈse.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cypˈse.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /cipˈse.li/
Noun
[edit]κῠψέλη • (kupsélē) f (genitive κῠψέλης); first declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῠψέλη hē kupsélē |
τὼ κῠψέλᾱ tṑ kupsélā |
αἱ κῠψέλαι hai kupsélai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῠψέλης tês kupsélēs |
τοῖν κῠψέλαιν toîn kupsélain |
τῶν κῠψελῶν tôn kupselôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῠψέλῃ têi kupsélēi |
τοῖν κῠψέλαιν toîn kupsélain |
ταῖς κῠψέλαις taîs kupsélais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῠψέλην tḕn kupsélēn |
τὼ κῠψέλᾱ tṑ kupsélā |
τᾱ̀ς κῠψέλᾱς tā̀s kupsélās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῠψέλη kupsélē |
κῠψέλᾱ kupsélā |
κῠψέλαι kupsélai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- κῠψέλῐον (kupsélion)
- κῠψελῐ́ς (kupselís)
- κῠψελόβῠστος (kupselóbustos)
- Κύψελος (Kúpselos)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: κυψέλη (kypséli)
Further reading
[edit]- “κυψέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κυψέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κυψέλη 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
Greek
[edit]Noun
[edit]κυψέλη • (kypséli) f (plural κυψέλες)
Declension
[edit]Declension of κυψέλη
Synonyms
[edit]- μελίσσι n (melíssi, “beehive, bee colony”)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]κυψέλη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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