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κάλπᾰσος (kálpasos)

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כַּרְפַּס (karpás, “a type of expensive fabric made of cotton”).

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kár.pa.sos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.pa.sos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.pa.sos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.pa.sos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.pa.sos/

κάρπᾰσος • (kárpasos) f (genitive καρπάσου, plural (neuter) κάρπᾰσᾰ); second declension

flax (Linum usitatissimum or Linum bienne)
cotton

Feminine singular:

Neuter plural:

κάρπασον (kárpason, “white hellebore, Veratrum album”)
καρπησία (karpēsía)
ὀποκάρπασον (opokárpason)

“κάρπασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κάρπασος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette