Ancient Greek

Noun

κᾰρπός • ‎(karpós) m ‎(genitive κᾰρποῦ); second declension

1. fruit, grain, produce, harvest
2. the product of something: children (fruit of the body), poetry (fruit of the mind), profit

Declension

Derived terms

• χρῡσόκᾰρπος ‎(khrūsókarpos)

Descendants

• Aromanian: carpo
• Greek: καρπός ‎(karpós)
• Turkish: karpuz

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷerp- ‎(“to turn”); if so, related to Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną ‎(“to turn”) (English wharf).

Noun

κᾰρπός • ‎(karpós) m ‎(genitive κᾰρποῦ); second declension

1. wrist

Declension

Descendants

• Greek: καρπός ‎(karpós)
• New Latin: carpus
  • English: carpus

References

• καρπός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καρπός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καρπός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καρπός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «καρπός» 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
• «καρπός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• καρπός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2590”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cereals idem, page 122.
  • corn idem, page 174.
  • crop idem, page 185.
  • fruit idem, page 347.
  • harvest idem, page 387.
  • produce idem, page 644.
  • standing idem, page 811.
  • wrist idem, page 993.
  • yield idem, page 996.
• Edward A. Roberts (8 April 2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots: Volume I (A-G), Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 978-1-4931-9108-6, page 323
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κᾰρπός ‎(karpós, “fruit, grain”).

Noun

καρπός • ‎(karpós) m ‎(plural καρποί)

1. fruit, grain

Declension

Related terms

• άκαρπος ‎(ákarpos, “unfruitful”)
• ακαρπία f ‎(akarpía, “fruitlessness, barrenness”)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek κᾰρπός ‎(karpós, “wrist”).

Noun

καρπός • ‎(karpós) m ‎(plural καρποί)

1. (anatomy) wrist

Declension