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κόπος
effort /ˈko.pos/
nounA2#924 most common
Also: trouble, pains, toil, hard work, fatigue, weariness
Example sentences
Αξίζει τον κόπο.
It's worth the effort.
Μη μπαίνεις στον κόπο για μένα.
Don't go to the trouble for me.
Με πολύ κόπο τελείωσα την εργασία μου.
With great effort I finished my work.
Όλος ο κόπος μου πήγε χαμένος.
All my effort went to waste.
Επιτέλους έπιασαν τόπο οι κόποι μας μετά από τόσους μήνες.
At last our efforts paid off after so many months.
Κανείς δεν αμφισβητεί τον κόπο που κατέβαλε για την επιτυχία του εγχειρήματος.
No one disputes the effort he expended on the success of the venture.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | κόπος | κόποι |
| Genitive | κόπου | κόπων |
| Accusative | κόπο | κόπους |
| Vocative | κόπε | κόποι |
Word family
κοπιάζωto toil, take pains
κοπιαστικόςlaborious, tiring
κόπωσηfatigue, tiredness
κοπιώδηςarduous, painstaking
ακούραστοςtireless
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek κόπος, originally 'a striking, beating', which developed the sense 'fatigue, weariness' and then 'the toil that causes it'. It is a deverbal noun from κόπτω 'to strike, cut, beat'. The shift from physical blows to the exhaustion of hard labor is the semantic bridge to the modern 'effort, trouble'.
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