κοπέλα

Greek

Etymology

Initial meaning ‘maid, stepdaughter’, feminine of Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos, “servant, stepson”), from South Proto-Slavic *kopylъ ‘shoot, sprout; bastard’ (compare Serbo-Croatian kȍpile, Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele); cf. also Albanian kopil (“bastard”), Romanian copilă (“child, girl”)).

Noun

κοπέλα • (kopéla) f (plural κοπέλες)

  1. young adult woman
  2. girlfriend

Declension
declension of κοπέλα
case     \     number singular plural
nominative κοπέλα • κοπέλες •
genitive κοπέλας • —
accusative κοπέλα • κοπέλες •
vocative κοπέλα • κοπέλες •

Synonyms
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