Ancient Greek

Noun

κόπρος • ‎(kópros) f ‎(genitive κόπρου); second declension

1. dung, ordure
   1. (especially in husbandry) dung, manure
2. filth, dirt
3. a farmyard, dunghill

Inflection

Descendants

• English: copro-
• Greek κόπρος ‎(kópros)

References

• κόπρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόπρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόπρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κόπρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «κόπρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «κόπρος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dung idem, page 256.
  • excrement idem, page 289.
  • manure idem, page 513.
  • ordure idem, page 579.
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κόπρος ‎(kópros), from Proto-Indo-European *kekʷō-.

Noun

κόπρος • ‎(kópros) f ‎(uncountable)

1. faeces, ****, manure
2. dirt

Declension

Synonyms

• κόπρανα n pl ‎(kóprana, “faeces”)
• κοπριά f ‎(kopriá, “dung”)

Etymology 2

Noun

κόπρος • ‎(kópros) m ‎(plural κόπροι)

1. stray dog

Declension