σίκυος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σῐκῠός (sikuós), σῐ́κῠς (síkus)
Etymology
From the same substrate/Pre-Greek root of σῐκῠ́α (sikúa, “bottle-gourd”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sí.ky.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ky.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.cy.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.cy.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ci.os/
Noun
σῐ́κῠος • (síkuos) m (genitive σῐκῠ́ου); second declension
- cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σῐ́κῠος; τοῦ σῐκῠ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σῐ́κῠος ho síkuos | τὼ σῐκῠ́ω tṑ sikúō | οἱ σῐ́κῠοι hoi síkuoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σῐκῠ́ου toû sikúou | τοῖν σῐκῠ́οιν toîn sikúoin | τῶν σῐκῠ́ων tôn sikúōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σῐκῠ́ῳ tôi sikúōi | τοῖν σῐκῠ́οιν toîn sikúoin | τοῖς σῐκῠ́οις toîs sikúois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σῐ́κῠον tòn síkuon | τὼ σῐκῠ́ω tṑ sikúō | τοὺς σῐκῠ́ους toùs sikúous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῐ́κῠε síkue | σῐκῠ́ω sikúō | σῐ́κῠοι síkuoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σῐκῠ́δῐον (sikúdion)
- σῐκῠηδόν (sikuēdón)
- σῐκῠήλᾰτον (sikuḗlaton)
- σῐκῠοπέπων (sikuopépōn)
- σῐκῠώδης (sikuṓdēs)
- σῐκῠών (sikuṓn)
- σῐκῠώνη (sikuṓnē)
- σῐκῠωνῐ́ᾱ (sikuōníā)
Descendants
- → Translingual: Sicyos
Further reading
- “σίκυος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σίκυος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σίκυος 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