Κοῖος

Κοῖος

See also: κοῖος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly derived from κοῖος (koîos), also spelt ποῖος (poîos, “what?, which?, of what kind?, of what nature?”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kôi̯.os/ → /ˈcy.os/ → /ˈci.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kôi̯.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.os/

Proper noun

Κοῖος • (Koîos) m (genitive Κοίου); second declension

1. Coeus, son of Uranus and Gaia, father of Leto
2. a river in Messenia

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Κοῖος; τοῦ Κοίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Κοῖος ho Koîos
Genitive	τοῦ Κοίου toû Koíou
Dative	τῷ Κοίῳ tôi Koíōi
Accusative	τὸν Κοῖον tòn Koîon
Vocative	Κοῖε Koîe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “Κοῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Κοῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “Κοῖος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter