κόνις
See also: κονίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kón-. Cognate with Latin cinis and Sanskrit कण (káṇa). Unexplained is the e/o vocalism difference.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.nis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.nis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.nis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.nis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.nis/
Noun
κόνῐς • (kónis) f (genitive κόνεως or κόνῐος or κόνεος); third declension
- dust
- (figuratively) the multitude
- ashes
- the powder sprinkled upon wrestlers
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ κόνῐς; τῆς κόνῐος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κόνῐς hē kónis | τὼ κόνῐε tṑ kónie | αἱ κόνῐες hai kónies | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κόνῐος tês kónios | τοῖν κονῐ́οιν toîn koníoin | τῶν κονῐ́ων tôn koníōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κόνῑ têi kónī | τοῖν κονῐ́οιν toîn koníoin | ταῖς κόνῐσῐ / κόνῐσῐν taîs kónisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κόνῐν tḕn kónin | τὼ κόνῐε tṑ kónie | τᾱ̀ς κόνῑς / κόνῐᾰς tā̀s kónīs / kónias | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόνῐ kóni | κόνῐε kónie | κόνῐες kónies | ||||||||||
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Third declension of ἡ κόνῐς; τῆς κόνεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κόνῐς hē kónis | τὼ κόνει tṑ kónei | αἱ κόνεις hai kóneis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κόνεως / κόνεος tês kóneōs / kóneos | τοῖν κονέοιν toîn konéoin | τῶν κόνεων tôn kóneōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κόνει têi kónei | τοῖν κονέοιν toîn konéoin | ταῖς κόνεσῐ / κόνεσῐν taîs kónesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κόνῐν tḕn kónin | τὼ κόνει tṑ kónei | τᾱ̀ς κόνεις tā̀s kóneis | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόνῐ kóni | κόνει kónei | κόνεις kóneis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κονιορτός (koniortós)
Related terms
- κονῐ́ᾱ (koníā)
Descendants
- Greek: σκόνη (skóni, “powder, dust”)
References
- “κόνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κόνις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κόνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κόνις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κόνις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dust idem, page 256.
- grit idem, page 374.
- powder idem, page 630.
- sand idem, page 733.
- 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