κνώψ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Clearly related to κινώπετον (kinṓpeton, “venomous beast”) and thus from Pre-Greek. Not a cross of κνώδαλον (knṓdalon, “wild animal”) and another word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /knɔ̌ːps/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /knops/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /knops/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /knops/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /knops/
Noun
κνώψ • (knṓps) m (genitive κνωπός); third declension
- venomous beast, especially a serpent
Declension
Third declension of ὁ κνώψ; τοῦ κνωπός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κνώψ ho knṓps | τὼ κνῶπε tṑ knôpe | οἱ κνῶπες hoi knôpes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κνωπός toû knōpós | τοῖν κνωποῖν toîn knōpoîn | τῶν κνωπῶν tôn knōpôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κνωπῐ́ tôi knōpí | τοῖν κνωποῖν toîn knōpoîn | τοῖς κνωψῐ́ / κνωψῐ́ν toîs knōpsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κνῶπᾰ tòn knôpa | τὼ κνῶπε tṑ knôpe | τοὺς κνῶπᾰς toùs knôpas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κνώψ knṓps | κνῶπε knôpe | κνῶπες knôpes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κνωπόμορφος (knōpómorphos)
Further reading
- κνώψ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κνώψ 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