κίκι
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κῖκι (kîki)
Etymology
From Egyptian kꜣkꜣ.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kí.ki/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈki.ki/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈci.ci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈci.ci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.ci/
Noun
κίκῐ • (kíki) n (genitive κίκεως); third declension
- castor oil
- croton (Ricinus communis)
- Synonym: κροτών (krotṓn)
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ κῐ́κῐ; τοῦ κῐ́κεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κῐ́κῐ tò kíki | τὼ κῐ́κει tṑ kíkei | τᾰ̀ κῐ́κη / κῐ́κεᾰ tà kíkē / kíkea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῐ́κεως toû kíkeōs | τοῖν κῐκέοιν toîn kikéoin | τῶν κῐ́κεων tôn kíkeōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῐ́κει tôi kíkei | τοῖν κῐκέοιν toîn kikéoin | τοῖς κῐ́κεσῐ / κῐ́κεσῐν toîs kíkesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κῐ́κῐ tò kíki | τὼ κῐ́κει tṑ kíkei | τᾰ̀ κῐ́κη / κῐ́κεᾰ tà kíkē / kíkea | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῐ́κῐ kíki | κῐ́κει kíkei | κῐ́κη / κῐ́κεᾰ kíkē / kíkea | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κίκινος (kíkinos)
- κίκιον (kíkion)
- κικιουργός (kikiourgós)
- κικιοφόρος (kikiophóros)
Descendants
- Latin: cici
Further reading
- “κίκι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίκι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κίκι 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