κόνυζα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κνύζα (knúza), σκόνυζα (skónuza)

Etymology

The formation is like other plant names, such as μάνυζα (mánuza), μώλυζα (mṓluza) and ὄρυζα (óruza). The assumption that it was formed from κονίς (konís, “nit”) is unwarranted. According to Beekes, the variations point to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.nyː.za/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ny.za/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ny.za/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ny.za/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ni.za/

Noun

κόνῡζᾰ • (kónūza) f (genitive κονῡ́ζης); first declension

fleabane (the name of various plants of the genus Inula)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κόνῡζᾰ; τῆς κονῡ́ζης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κόνῡζᾰ hē kónūza	τὼ κονῡ́ζᾱ tṑ konū́zā	αἱ κόνῡζαι hai kónūzai
Genitive	τῆς κονῡ́ζης tês konū́zēs	τοῖν κονῡ́ζαιν toîn konū́zain	τῶν κονῡζῶν tôn konūzôn
Dative	τῇ κονῡ́ζῃ têi konū́zēi	τοῖν κονῡ́ζαιν toîn konū́zain	ταῖς κονῡ́ζαις taîs konū́zais
Accusative	τὴν κόνῡζᾰν tḕn kónūzan	τὼ κονῡ́ζᾱ tṑ konū́zā	τᾱ̀ς κονῡ́ζᾱς tā̀s konū́zās
Vocative	κόνῡζᾰ kónūza	κονῡ́ζᾱ konū́zā	κόνῡζαι kónūzai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

κονῡζήεις (konūzḗeis)
κονῡζίτης (konūzítēs)

Descendants

Latin: conȳza
- → Translingual: Conyza

References

“κόνυζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κόνυζα 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