κιρσός

κιρσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κριξός (krixós), κρισσός (krissós)

Etymology

According to Beekes, the variation "σ/ξ" shows that the word is from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kir.sós/ → /cirˈsos/ → /cirˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kir.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kirˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cirˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cirˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /cirˈsos/

Noun

κῐρσός • (kirsós) m (genitive κῐρσοῦ); second declension

1. (pathology) varicocele, enlargement of a vein

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῐρσός; τοῦ κῐρσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῐρσός ho kirsós	τὼ κῐρσώ tṑ kirsṓ	οἱ κῐρσοί hoi kirsoí
Genitive	τοῦ κῐρσοῦ toû kirsoû	τοῖν κῐρσοῖν toîn kirsoîn	τῶν κῐρσῶν tôn kirsôn
Dative	τῷ κῐρσῷ tôi kirsôi	τοῖν κῐρσοῖν toîn kirsoîn	τοῖς κῐρσοῖς toîs kirsoîs
Accusative	τὸν κῐρσόν tòn kirsón	τὼ κῐρσώ tṑ kirsṓ	τοὺς κῐρσούς toùs kirsoús
Vocative	κῐρσέ kirsé	κῐρσώ kirsṓ	κῐρσοί kirsoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κίρσιον (kírsion)
• κιρσοειδής (kirsoeidḗs)
• κιρσοκήλη (kirsokḗlē)
• κιρσοτομέω (kirsotoméō)
• κιρσοτομία (kirsotomía)
• κιρσουλκέω (kirsoulkéō)
• κιρσουλκία (kirsoulkía)
• κιρσουλκός (kirsoulkós)
• κιρσόω (kirsóō)
• κιρσώδης (kirsṓdēs)
• κίρσωσις (kírsōsis)

 

Further reading

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

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κιρσός (kirsós), from κρίκος (kríkos) or κίρκος (kírkos).

Noun

κιρσός • (kirsós) m

1. varicose vein, varicocele

Declension

declension of κιρσός

case     \\     number	singular	plural
nominative	κιρσός •	κιρσοί •
genitive	κιρσού •	κιρσών •
accusative	κιρσό •	κιρσούς •
vocative	κιρσέ •	κιρσοί •

Further reading

• Κιρσοί on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el