The corpus record

κᾰπῠρ-ός

kapuros

dry, brittle, crackly, clear-sounding

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What it meant

1. καπυρός · kapyros — Beekes

καπυρός [adj.] ‘dry, brittle, crackly, clear-sounding’ (Hp., Epich., Antiph., Arist., Theoc.). , *DER καπύρια, -idta [pl.] ‘kind of cake’ (pap.); καπυρόομαι ‘to be dried, singed, crackly’ (Str., Orib.), καπυρίζω ‘make noise, drink’ with καπυριστής ‘drinker’ (Str.). *ETYM Derived from the u-stem in *xanbw (xamvuc), so properly ‘giving smoke, burnt’; on the meaning, see Legrand REGr. 20 (1907): 10ff. and … — [Beekes, s.v. καπυρός, p. 687]

2. κᾰπῠρ-ός · kapyr-os — LSJ

dried by the air

dried by the air, κάρυα Epich. 150; χοιρίων σκέλη Antiph. 185; ἄλφιτον κ. Arist. Pr. 927a24, cf. Dieuch. ap. Orib. 4.7.3; τυρός Test.Epict. 5.36; χαῖται (of thistle-down) Theoc. 6.16.

b brittle, crisp, crackly

brittle, ὀστέον Hp. VC 19 (v.l. εὔπριστον); cj. in Thphr. HP 3.13.4 and 7 (Comp.); crisp, crackly, Diocl. Fr. 147.

2 drying, parching

Act., drying, parching, κ. νόσος, of love, Theoc. 2.85.

II crackly, loud, clear-sounding, clearly, rude

of sound, crackly, καπυρὸν ψοφεῖν Gal. 6.434: metaph., κ. γελάσας laughing loud, AP 7.414 (Nossis), cf. Longus 2.5; κ. γέλως Alciphr. 3.48; κ. στόμα clear-sounding, of Poets, Theoc. 7.37; κ. συρίζειν to play clearly on the syrinx, Luc. DDeor. 2[22].3; καπυρώτεραι ᾠδαί rude songs, opp. ἐσπουδασμέναι, Ath. 15.697b.

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