κνίψ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σκνίψ (skníps)
Etymology
Formation rhyming with θρίψ (thríps, “woodworm”) and ἴψ (íps, “kind of worm”). It has been compared with words for "pinching" in Baltic and Germanic, but these are rather European substrate words. The whole picture is that of a Pre-Greek word: very small animal, long ῑ, prothetic σ-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /knǐːps/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /knips/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /knips/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /knips/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /knips/
Noun
κνῑ́ψ • (knī́ps) m (genitive κνῑπός); third declension
- kind of insect that infests fig and oak trees and devours the gallfly
Declension
Third declension of ὁ κνῑ́ψ; τοῦ κνῑπός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κνῑ́ψ ho knī́ps | τὼ κνῖπε tṑ knîpe | οἱ κνῖπες hoi knîpes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κνῑπός toû knīpós | τοῖν κνῑποῖν toîn knīpoîn | τῶν κνῑπῶν tôn knīpôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κνῑπῐ́ tôi knīpí | κνῑποῖν knīpoîn | τοῖς κνῑψῐ́ / κνῑψῐ́ν toîs knīpsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κνῖπᾰ tòn knîpa | κνῖπε knîpe | τοὺς κνῖπᾰς toùs knîpas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κνῑ́ψ knī́ps | κνῖπε knîpe | κνῖπες knîpes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κνιπεία (knipeía)
- κνίπειον (knípeion)
- κνιπεύω (knipeúō)
- κνιπολόγος (knipológos)
- κνιπόομαι (knipóomai)
- κνιπότης (knipótēs)
Further reading
- κνίψ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κνίψ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κνίψ 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