κάλπις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰ́λπη (kálpē), κᾰ́λπος (kálpos)

Etymology

Without a certain explanation. Often connected with Breton kelorn (“bucket”) but this does not explain the -α-. Furnée connects it with Ancient Greek κελέβη (kelébē), for which there seems no reason. Possibly from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kál.pis/ → /ˈkal.pis/ → /ˈkal.pis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kál.pis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.pis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.pis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.pis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.pis/

Noun

κᾰ́λπῐς • (kálpis) f (genitive κᾰ́λπῐδος); third declension

1. pitcher
2. kind of cup
3. box for unguents
4. urn for drawing lots
5. cinerary urn

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰ́λπῐς hē kálpis	τὼ κᾰ́λπῐδε tṑ kálpide	αἱ κᾰ́λπῐδες hai kálpides
Genitive	τῆς κᾰ́λπῐδος tês kálpidos	τοῖν κᾰλπῐ́δοιν toîn kalpídoin	τῶν κᾰλπῐ́δων tôn kalpídōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰ́λπῐδῐ têi kálpidi	τοῖν κᾰλπῐ́δοιν toîn kalpídoin	ταῖς κᾰ́λπῐσῐ / κᾰ́λπῐσῐν taîs kálpisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰ́λπῐδᾰ tḕn kálpida	τὼ κᾰ́λπῐδε tṑ kálpide	τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́λπῐδᾰς tā̀s kálpidas
Vocative	κᾰ́λπῐς kálpis	κᾰ́λπῐδε kálpide	κᾰ́λπῐδες kálpides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Third declension of ἡ κᾰ́λπῐς; τῆς κᾰ́λπῐδος (Attic)

Derived terms

• κᾰ́λπῐον (kálpion)
• κᾰλποφόρος (kalpophóros)

 

Descendants

• → English: kalpis

Further reading

• “κάλπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάλπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κάλπις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κάλπις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κάλπις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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