κνίδη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from κνίζω (knízō, “scratch or gash”); yet the -ι- is long in this word, which may point to Pre-Greek origin, according to Beekes.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /knǐː.dɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkni.de̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkni.ði/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkni.ði/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkni.ði/
Noun
κνῑ́δη • (knī́dē) f (genitive κνῑ́δης); first declension
- stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)
- Synonym: ἀκᾰλήφη (akalḗphē)
- sea anemone in the genus Actinia with a nettle-like sting
Declension
First declension of ἡ κνῑ́δη; τῆς κνῑ́δης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κνῑ́δη hē knī́dē | τὼ κνῑ́δᾱ tṑ knī́dā | αἱ κνῖδαι hai knîdai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κνῑ́δης tês knī́dēs | τοῖν κνῑ́δαιν toîn knī́dain | τῶν κνῑδῶν tôn knīdôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κνῑ́δῃ têi knī́dēi | τοῖν κνῑ́δαιν toîn knī́dain | ταῖς κνῑ́δαις taîs knī́dais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κνῑ́δην tḕn knī́dēn | τὼ κνῑ́δᾱ tṑ knī́dā | τᾱ̀ς κνῑ́δᾱς tā̀s knī́dās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κνῑ́δη knī́dē | κνῑ́δᾱ knī́dā | κνῖδαι knîdai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κνῑδόσπερμον (knīdóspermon)
- κνῑ́δωσῐς (knī́dōsis)
Descendants
- → New Latin: cnida
- → English: cnida
Further reading
- “κνίδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κνίδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κνίδη 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