κίκιννος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. A prenasalized *κίγκιννος (*kínkinnos) is assumed source of Latin cincinnus.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kí.kin.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈki.kin.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈci.cin.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈci.cin.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.ci.nos/
Noun
κῐ́κῐννος • (kíkinnos) m (genitive κῐκῐ́ννου); second declension
- lock of curly hair.
- ringlet.
Declension
Second declension of ὁ κῐ́κῐννος; τοῦ κῐκῐ́ννου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κῐ́κῐννος ho kíkinnos | τὼ κῐκῐ́ννω tṑ kikínnō | οἱ κῐ́κῐννοι hoi kíkinnoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῐκῐ́ννου toû kikínnou | τοῖν κῐκῐ́ννοιν toîn kikínnoin | τῶν κῐκῐ́ννων tôn kikínnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῐκῐ́ννῳ tôi kikínnōi | τοῖν κῐκῐ́ννοιν toîn kikínnoin | τοῖς κῐκῐ́ννοις toîs kikínnois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κῐ́κῐννον tòn kíkinnon | τὼ κῐκῐ́ννω tṑ kikínnō | τοὺς κῐκῐ́ννους toùs kikínnous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῐ́κῐννε kíkinne | κῐκῐ́ννω kikínnō | κῐ́κῐννοι kíkinnoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: cincinnus
- Italian: cincinno
Further reading
- “κίκιννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίκιννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- curl idem, page 190.
- ringlet idem, page 716.
- 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