κῆτος
See also: κύτος and κήτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The origin is unknown. Probably a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛ̂ː.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈke̝.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈci.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈci.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.tos/
Noun
κῆτος • (kêtos) n (genitive κήτους); third declension
- whale, sea monster
- (astronomy) the constellation Cetus
- abyss
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ κῆτος; τοῦ κήτους (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κῆτος tò kêtos | τὼ κήτει tṑ kḗtei | τᾰ̀ κήτη tà kḗtē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κήτους toû kḗtous | τοῖν κητοῖν toîn kētoîn | τῶν κητῶν tôn kētôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κήτει tôi kḗtei | τοῖν κητοῖν toîn kētoîn | τοῖς κήτεσῐ / κήτεσῐν toîs kḗtesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κῆτος tò kêtos | τὼ κήτει tṑ kḗtei | τᾰ̀ κήτη tà kḗtē | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῆτος kêtos | κήτει kḗtei | κήτη kḗtē | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: κήτος (kítos)
- → Classical Syriac: ܩܐܛܐ (qē(ʾ)ṭāʾ)
- → Coptic: ⲕⲏⲧⲟⲥ (kētos)
- → Latin: cētus
- → Hungarian: cet
- → Translingual: Cetacea
- → Old Armenian: կէտ (kēt), կետոս (ketos)
- Armenian: կետ (ket)
- → Old Church Slavonic: к҄итъ (kʹitŭ) (see there for further descendants)
- →⇒ Old Georgian: ვეშაპკეტი (vešaṗḳeṭi)
Further reading
- “κῆτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κῆτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κῆτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κῆτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κῆτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2785 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 974
- 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