κόκκαλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, kernel”). Compare Ancient Greek Κώκαλος (Kṓkalos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kók.ka.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkok.ka.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.ka.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.ka.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.ka.los/
Noun
κόκκᾰλος • (kókkalos) m (genitive κοκκᾰ́λου); second declension
- (botany) pine kernel, the seed of the pinecone
Declension
Second declension of ὁ κόκκᾰλος; τοῦ κοκκᾰ́λου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κόκκᾰλος ho kókkalos | τὼ κοκκᾰ́λω tṑ kokkálō | οἱ κόκκᾰλοι hoi kókkaloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κοκκᾰ́λου toû kokkálou | τοῖν κοκκᾰ́λοιν toîn kokkáloin | τῶν κοκκᾰ́λων tôn kokkálōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κοκκᾰ́λῳ tôi kokkálōi | τοῖν κοκκᾰ́λοιν toîn kokkáloin | τοῖς κοκκᾰ́λοις toîs kokkálois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόκκᾰλον tòn kókkalon | τὼ κοκκᾰ́λω tṑ kokkálō | τοὺς κοκκᾰ́λους toùs kokkálous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόκκᾰλε kókkale | κοκκᾰ́λω kokkálō | κόκκᾰλοι kókkaloi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Byzantine Greek: κόκκαλον (kókkalon)
- Greek: κόκαλο (kókalo)
- → Romani: kòkalo, kokalo
- → Romanian: cocal
Further reading
- “κόκκαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόκκαλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette