κονιορτός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κόνις (kónis, “dust”) + ὄρνυμι (órnumi, “to raise”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ko.ni.or.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ko.ni.orˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ko.ni.orˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ko.ni.orˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ko.ni.orˈtos/
Noun
κονιορτός • (koniortós) m (genitive κονιορτοῦ); second declension
- cloud of dust
- Synonyms: κονίσαλος (konísalos), φορυτός (phorutós), χοῦς (khoûs), ψαύριος (psaúrios)
- c. 2nd century BCE, Sibylline Oracles, Book III, 800–802:
- καὶ κονιορτὸς ἀπ᾽ οὐρανόθεν προφέρηται πρὸς γαῖαν ἅπαν καί οἱ σέλας ἠελίοιο ἐκλείψει κατὰ μέσσον ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ
- kaì koniortòs ap᾽ ouranóthen prophérētai pròs gaîan hápan kaí hoi sélas ēelíoio ekleípsei katà mésson ap᾽ ouranoû
- and a cloud of dust will be cast from heaven over all the earth, and the light of the sun will be eclipsed in the middle of the sky
- dirt, sweepings
- dirty fellow
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κονιορτός; τοῦ κονιορτοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κονιορτός ho koniortós | τὼ κονιορτώ tṑ koniortṓ | οἱ κονιορτοί hoi koniortoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κονιορτοῦ toû koniortoû | τοῖν κονιορτοῖν toîn koniortoîn | τῶν κονιορτῶν tôn koniortôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κονιορτῷ tôi koniortôi | τοῖν κονιορτοῖν toîn koniortoîn | τοῖς κονιορτοῖς toîs koniortoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κονιορτόν tòn koniortón | τὼ κονιορτώ tṑ koniortṓ | τοὺς κονιορτούς toùs koniortoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | κονιορτέ koniorté | κονιορτώ koniortṓ | κονιορτοί koniortoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κονιορτόω (koniortóō)
- κονιορτώδης (koniortṓdēs)
References
- “κονιορτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κονιορτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κονιορτός 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