καπνός

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]

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

1. smoke

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

• “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

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

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

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)

• see: καπνίζω (kapnízo, “to smoke”)

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

• καπνός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el