κινυρός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The meaning was already unclear in antiquity. The parallelism between this word and μινυρός (minurós, “complaining, whining”) is clear. Further etymology is uncertain.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ki.ny.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ki.nyˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ci.nyˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ci.nyˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ci.niˈros/
Adjective
κῐνῠρός • (kinurós) m (feminine κῐνῠρᾱ́, neuter κῐνῠρόν); first/second declension
- wailing, plaintive, lamenting
- Synonym: θρηνητικός (thrēnētikós)
Inflection
First and second declension of κῐνῠρός; κῐνῠρᾱ́; κῐνῠρόν (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | κῐνῠρός kinurós | κῐνῠρᾱ́ kinurā́ | κῐνῠρόν kinurón | κῐνῠρώ kinurṓ | κῐνῠρᾱ́ kinurā́ | κῐνῠρώ kinurṓ | κῐνῠροί kinuroí | κῐνῠραί kinuraí | κῐνῠρᾰ́ kinurá | |||||
Genitive | κῐνῠροῦ kinuroû | κῐνῠρᾶς kinurâs | κῐνῠροῦ kinuroû | κῐνῠροῖν kinuroîn | κῐνῠραῖν kinuraîn | κῐνῠροῖν kinuroîn | κῐνῠρῶν kinurôn | κῐνῠρῶν kinurôn | κῐνῠρῶν kinurôn | |||||
Dative | κῐνῠρῷ kinurôi | κῐνῠρᾷ kinurâi | κῐνῠρῷ kinurôi | κῐνῠροῖν kinuroîn | κῐνῠραῖν kinuraîn | κῐνῠροῖν kinuroîn | κῐνῠροῖς kinuroîs | κῐνῠραῖς kinuraîs | κῐνῠροῖς kinuroîs | |||||
Accusative | κῐνῠρόν kinurón | κῐνῠρᾱ́ν kinurā́n | κῐνῠρόν kinurón | κῐνῠρώ kinurṓ | κῐνῠρᾱ́ kinurā́ | κῐνῠρώ kinurṓ | κῐνῠρούς kinuroús | κῐνῠρᾱ́ς kinurā́s | κῐνῠρᾰ́ kinurá | |||||
Vocative | κῐνῠρέ kinuré | κῐνῠρᾱ́ kinurā́ | κῐνῠρόν kinurón | κῐνῠρώ kinurṓ | κῐνῠρᾱ́ kinurā́ | κῐνῠρώ kinurṓ | κῐνῠροί kinuroí | κῐνῠραί kinuraí | κῐνῠρᾰ́ kinurá | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
κῐνῠρῶς kinurôs | κῐνῠρώτερος kinurṓteros | κῐνῠρώτᾰτος kinurṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κινυρίζω (kinurízō)
- κινύροομαι (kinúroomai)
Further reading
- “κινυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κινυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κινυρός 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