κόνδυ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Like many words ending in -ῠ, it is a loanword. Furnée compares κοτύλη (kotúlē, “cup”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin, while Szemerényi refers to late Neo-Babylonian 𒃶𒁺 (kandu, “vessel”) which is considered a West Semitic borrowing: Aramaic כנדא (kandā, “vessel, pot; specifically for wine”), found also in the forms כַּד (kaḏ), כדא (kaddā), Biblical Hebrew כַּד (kad), Punic 𐤊𐤃 (kd), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎄 (kd), and Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kón.dy/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkon.dy/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkon.dy/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkon.dy/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkon.di/
Noun
κόνδῠ • (kóndu) n (genitive κόνδῠος); third declension
- a kind of drinking vessel
- a unit of volume derived from the vessel
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ κόνδῠ; τοῦ κόνδῠος (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κόνδῠ tò kóndu | τὼ κόνδῠε tṑ kóndue | τᾰ̀ κόνδῠᾰ tà kóndua | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κόνδῠος toû kónduos | τοῖν κονδῠ́οιν toîn kondúoin | τῶν κονδῠ́ων tôn kondúōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κόνδῠῐ̈ tôi kónduï | τοῖν κονδῠ́οιν toîn kondúoin | τοῖς κόνδῠσῐ / κόνδῠσῐν toîs kóndusi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κόνδῠ tò kóndu | τὼ κόνδῠε tṑ kóndue | τᾰ̀ κόνδῠᾰ tà kóndua | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κόνδῠ kóndu | κόνδῠε kóndue | κόνδῠᾰ kóndua | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
| ||||||||||||
Further reading
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Condy
- Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Condy
- “κόνδυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόνδυ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κόνδυ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 745