κάκτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A possible loan from Pre-Greek.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kák.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkak.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkak.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkak.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkak.tos/
Noun
κᾰ́κτος • (káktos) f or m (genitive κᾰ́κτου); second declension
- (feminine) the cardoon, Cynara cardunculus
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 6.4.10
- 340 BCE – 285 BCE, Philitas, Collected Works 16
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 10.4
- Antig., Mir. 8
- 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Alex. 33
- (masculine) the artichoke (the fruit of the cardoon); also, the cardoon’s edible leaf-stalks
- 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 159
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 6.4.10
Declension
Second declension of ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́κτος; τοῦ, τῆς κᾰ́κτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́κτος ho, hē káktos | τὼ κᾰ́κτω tṑ káktō | οἱ, αἱ κᾰ́κτοι hoi, hai káktoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς κᾰ́κτου toû, tês káktou | τοῖν κᾰ́κτοιν toîn káktoin | τῶν κᾰ́κτων tôn káktōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ κᾰ́κτῳ tôi, têi káktōi | τοῖν κᾰ́κτοιν toîn káktoin | τοῖς, ταῖς κᾰ́κτοις toîs, taîs káktois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν κᾰ́κτον tòn, tḕn kákton | τὼ κᾰ́κτω tṑ káktō | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́κτους toùs, tā̀s káktous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́κτε kákte | κᾰ́κτω káktō | κᾰ́κτοι káktoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: κάκτος (káktos)
- Latin: cactus (see there for further descendants)
References
- “κάκτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάκτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin cactus, from the Ancient Greek κάκτος (káktos).
Noun
κάκτος • (káktos) m (plural κάκτοι)
- cactus
Declension
declension of κάκτος
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | κάκτος • | κάκτοι • |
genitive | κάκτου • | κάκτων • |
accusative | κάκτο • | κάκτους • |
vocative | κάκτε • | κάκτοι • |
References
- κάκτος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.