κέρκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of Pre-Greek origin. Compare κερκίς (kerkís).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kér.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈker.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcer.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcer.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcer.kos/
Noun
κέρκος • (kérkos) f (genitive κέρκου); second declension
- the tail of a beast
- 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 785
- 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1031
- 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 909
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 254d
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Sertorius 16
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 689b.2
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 565b.29
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 1054
- 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 130
- a penis
- 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 239
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 5.45
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 3.68
- a handle
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Lexiphanes 7
- a small animal that attacks grapevines
- AD 5th C., Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον
- Synonym of ἀλεκτρυών (alektruṓn)
- AD 5th C., Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον
- a tongue of flame
- 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1257
- (Byzantine) a stake, picket, or pale
- ScriptOr 259.21
- (Byzantine) a burin (a chisel-like tool used for engraving)
- VAndR e.69E
Declension
Second declension of ἡ κέρκος; τῆς κέρκου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κέρκος hē kérkos | τὼ κέρκω tṑ kérkō | αἱ κέρκοι hai kérkoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κέρκου tês kérkou | τοῖν κέρκοιν toîn kérkoin | τῶν κέρκων tôn kérkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κέρκῳ têi kérkōi | τοῖν κέρκοιν toîn kérkoin | ταῖς κέρκοις taîs kérkois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κέρκον tḕn kérkon | τὼ κέρκω tṑ kérkō | τᾱ̀ς κέρκους tā̀s kérkous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κέρκε kérke | κέρκω kérkō | κέρκοι kérkoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κέρκουρος (kérkouros)
Descendants
- Translingual: ?Cercomacra, Cercopithecus, ?Onchocerca, Ptilocercus (generic names)
- English: cysticercus
- → Latin: cercus (New Latin)
- → English: cercus
References
- “κέρκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κέρκος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 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