κιττώ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Hebrew קִדָּה (qiddâ, “cassia”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kit.tɔ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kitˈto/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /citˈto/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /citˈto/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈto/
Noun
κῐττώ • (kittṓ) f (genitive κῐττοῦς); third declension
- Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ κῐττώ; τῆς κῐττοῦς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῐττώ hē kittṓ | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῐττοῦς tês kittoûs | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῐττοῖ têi kittoî | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῐττώ tḕn kittṓ | ||||||||||||
Vocative | κῐττοῖ kittoî | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κιττώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κιττώ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 36