κίσθος

κίσθος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κῐ́στος (kístos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kís.tʰos/ → /ˈcis.θos/ → /ˈcis.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kís.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkis.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcis.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcis.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈcis.θos/

Noun

κίσθος • (kísthos) m (genitive κίσθου); second declension

1. rockrose (Cistus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῐ́σθος; τοῦ κῐ́σθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῐ́σθος ho kísthos	τὼ κῐ́σθω tṑ kísthō	οἱ κῐ́σθοι hoi kísthoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῐ́σθου toû kísthou	τοῖν κῐ́σθοιν toîn kísthoin	τῶν κῐ́σθων tôn kísthōn
Dative	τῷ κῐ́σθῳ tôi kísthōi	τοῖν κῐ́σθοιν toîn kísthoin	τοῖς κῐ́σθοις toîs kísthois
Accusative	τὸν κῐ́σθον tòn kísthon	τὼ κῐ́σθω tṑ kísthō	τοὺς κῐ́σθους toùs kísthous
Vocative	κῐ́σθε kísthe	κῐ́σθω kísthō	κῐ́σθοι kísthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: قِسْتُوس‎ (qistūs), قَلْسُوس‎ (qalsūs), قَسُّوس‎ (qassūs)
• → Latin: cisthos
  • Translingual: Cistus

Further reading

• “κίσθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κίσθος 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