κηθίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, maybe of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛː.tʰís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ke̝ˈtʰis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈθis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈθis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈθis/
Noun
κηθίς • (kēthís) f (genitive κηθίδος); third declension
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Declension
Third declension of ἡ κηθῐ́ς; τῆς κηθῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κηθῐ́ς hē kēthís | τὼ κηθῐ́δε tṑ kēthíde | αἱ κηθῐ́δες hai kēthídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κηθῐ́δος tês kēthídos | τοῖν κηθῐ́δοιν toîn kēthídoin | τῶν κηθῐ́δων tôn kēthídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κηθῐ́δῐ têi kēthídi | τοῖν κηθῐ́δοιν toîn kēthídoin | ταῖς κηθῐ́σῐ / κηθῐ́σῐν taîs kēthísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κηθῐ́δᾰ tḕn kēthída | τὼ κηθῐ́δε tṑ kēthíde | τᾱ̀ς κηθῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kēthídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κηθῐ́ς kēthís | κηθῐ́δε kēthíde | κηθῐ́δες kēthídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κηθάριον (kēthárion)
- κηθίδιον (kēthídion)
- κήθιον (kḗthion)
Further reading
- “κηθίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κηθίς 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