κόϊξ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κόϊς (kóïs) – Doric
Etymology
Possibly related to σκοίκιον (skoíkion, “vessel, receptacle”), in which case it is from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.iks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.iks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.iks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.iks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.iks/
Noun
κόϊξ • (kóïx) m (genitive κόϊκος); third declension
- doum palm, Hyphaene thebaica
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 1.10.5
- basket made from palm leaves
- 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Collected Works 78
- 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 63
- 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 113
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ κόϊξ; τοῦ κόϊκος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κόϊξ ho kóïx | τὼ κόϊκε tṑ kóïke | οἱ κόϊκες hoi kóïkes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κόϊκος toû kóïkos | τοῖν κοΐκοιν toîn koḯkoin | τῶν κοΐκων tôn koḯkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κόϊκῐ tôi kóïki | τοῖν κοΐκοιν toîn koḯkoin | τοῖς κόϊξῐ / κόϊξῐν toîs kóïxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόϊκᾰ tòn kóïka | τὼ κόϊκε tṑ kóïke | τοὺς κόϊκᾰς toùs kóïkas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόϊξ kóïx | κόϊκε kóïke | κόϊκες kóïkes | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- κοΐκινος (koḯkinos)
Descendants
- Translingual: Coix
References
- κόϊξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 731-732