Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰλῠ́πτρη ‎(kalúptrē) Ionic

Noun

κᾰλῠ́πτρᾱ • ‎(kalúptrā) f ‎(genitive κᾰλῠ́πτρᾱς); first declension

1. veil, headdress
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.406
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.232
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Parmenides, On Nature 1.10
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 537
   • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 122
   • 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 18
   1. bride’s veil
      • Euph. 107.4
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 811
2. land given to queens as “veil-money” (money given to Oriental queens for their small expenses. See also ζώνη ‎(zṓnē))
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Alc. 1.123c
   • 117 CE – 181 CE, Aelius Aristides, Orations 19.4
3. cover, lid
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.64
4. seed capsule
   • Geoponica 11.11.2

Declension

Descendants

• English: calyptra
• Greek: καλύπτρα ‎(kalýptra)

References

• καλύπτρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καλύπτρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers

Greek

Noun

καλύπτρα • ‎(kalýptra) f ‎(plural καλύπτρες)

1. veil, cover
2. (botany) root cap

Declension

Related terms

• καλύπτω ‎(kalýpto, “to cover, to conceal”)
• καλύπτρα ματιού f ‎(kalýptra matioú, “eye patch”)