kuprime-

This lexeme is attested in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4^th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).

[D.S.]

nom./acc. sg.	kuprimẽ	TL 55.3 (Antiphellos)
gen. adj. acc. sg. c.	kuprimesi	TL 55.3 (Antiphellos)

Although a genitive plural is formally possible, we take kuprimẽ as acc. sg. (thus DLL:118), assuming that it is the direct object of the preceding infinitive verb, which is not well preserved, i.e. p̣a[.]­ãna (see Schürr 2005a:121, 125).

[D.S.]

Whereas kuprimẽ is found in a fragmentary passage, kuprimesi modifies kñ^!ta〈q〉ẽ  (pace Schürr 2005a:142), something that is offered in sacrifice. Taking the derivational base kupri-^(ti) ‘to love, choose’ into consideration, the substantivized participle kuprime- likely means ‘the chosen/desired (thing)’ (DLL:118). Considering the sacrificial context and the passage kuprimi urasli ‘for the chosen/desired great sacrifice’ (TL 44d.16), kuprime- may stand for ‘the chosen/desired (sacrifice)’. Shevoroshkin 2014a:233f. claims that it refers to the “meals of choice”, which is possible, but then it would have to refer specifically to the sacrificial food offered to the gods.

[D.S.]

The noun kuprime- represents a substantivization of the neuter of the participle of the verb kupri-^(ti).

[D.S.]

For the derivational base, see kupri-^(ti), and for the lemma head see Lyc. B *kup-.