καπνός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kapnós, from Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), which appears to be a European substrate word;^[1] see also Lithuanian kūpėti (“to boil over”), Old Church Slavonic кꙑпѣти (kypěti, “to boil”), Sanskrit कुप्यति (kupyati, “become agitated, bubbles up”), Latin cupiō.^[2]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.pnós/ → /kaˈpnos/ → /kaˈpnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.pnós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈpnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈpnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈpnos/

Noun

καπνός • (kapnós) m (genitive καπνοῦ); second declension

1. smoke

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰπνός ho kapnós	τὼ κᾰπνώ tṑ kapnṓ	οἱ κᾰπνοί hoi kapnoí
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰπνοῦ toû kapnoû	τοῖν κᾰπνοῖν toîn kapnoîn	τῶν κᾰπνῶν tôn kapnôn
Dative	τῷ κᾰπνῷ tôi kapnôi	τοῖν κᾰπνοῖν toîn kapnoîn	τοῖς κᾰπνοῖς toîs kapnoîs
Accusative	τὸν κᾰπνόν tòn kapnón	τὼ κᾰπνώ tṑ kapnṓ	τοὺς κᾰπνούς toùs kapnoús
Vocative	κᾰπνέ kapné	κᾰπνώ kapnṓ	κᾰπνοί kapnoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ κᾰπνός; τοῦ κᾰπνοῦ (Attic)

Descendants

• Greek: καπνός (kapnós)
• Mariupol Greek: капнос (kapnos)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “καπνός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 638-9
2. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Further reading

• “καπνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καπνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “καπνός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• καπνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• καπνός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “καπνός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2586 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpnos/
• Hyphenation: κα‧πνός

Noun

καπνός • (kapnós) m (plural καπνοί)

1. smoke

   δεν υπάρχει καπνός χωρίς φωτιά ― den ypárchei kapnós chorís fotiá ― there is no smoke without fire

2. tobacco (plant and its products)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	καπνός •	καπνοί •
genitive	καπνού •	καπνών •
accusative	καπνό •	καπνούς •
vocative	καπνέ •	καπνοί •

Declension of καπνός

Related terms

• see: καπνίζω (kapnízo, “to smoke”)

See also

• ταμπάκος m (tampákos, “snuff”)
• νικοτιανή f (nikotianí, “nicotiana”)

Further reading

• καπνός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el