Etymology

From Proto-HellenicCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic#ΚΑΠΗCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic#ΚΑΠΗ *kápā, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ΚΑΠΗ *kap- (“to seize, to understand, to grasp”), the same root of κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”).

Pronunciation

Noun

κᾰ́πη • (kắpē) f (genitive κᾰ́πης)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΚΑΠΗCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΚΑΠΗCategory:Ancient Greek paroxytone terms#ΚΑΠΗCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΚΑΠΗCategory:Ancient Greek first-declension nouns#ΚΑΠΗCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension#ΚΑΠΗCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΚΑΠΗCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΚΑΠΗCategory:Pages with entries#ΚΑΠΗCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΚΑΠΗ; first declension

1. crib, manger

   Synonym: φάτνη (phátnē)

Further reading

• “κάπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κάπη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κάπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κάπη 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