ἄρκυς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Accoridng to Lidén, related to ἄρκευθος (árkeuthos), ἀρκάνη (arkánē) and Russian раки́та (rakíta, “willow”) but Beekes finds this improbable, as a derivative suffix would be expected. According to him, it is more probable a Pre-Greek word, giving the technical nature of the term.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ár.kys/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈar.kys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈar.cys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈar.cys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈar.cis/
Noun
ἄρκῠς • (árkus) f (genitive ἄρκῠος); third declension
- net
- hairnet
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓́ρκῠς; τῆς ᾰ̓́ρκῠος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓́ρκῠς hē árkus | τὼ ᾰ̓́ρκῠε tṑ árkue | αἱ ᾰ̓́ρκῠες hai árkues | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓́ρκῠος tês árkuos | τοῖν ᾰ̓ρκῠ́οιν toîn arkúoin | τῶν ᾰ̓ρκῠ́ων tôn arkúōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓́ρκῠῐ̈ / ᾰ̓́ρκυι têi árkuï / árkui | τοῖν ᾰ̓ρκῠ́οιν toîn arkúoin | ταῖς ᾰ̓́ρκῠσῐ / ᾰ̓́ρκῠσῐν taîs árkusi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓́ρκῠν tḕn árkun | τὼ ᾰ̓́ρκῠε tṑ árkue | τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓́ρκῡς / ᾰ̓́ρκῠᾰς tā̀s árkūs / árkuas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́ρκῠ árku | ᾰ̓́ρκῠε árkue | ᾰ̓́ρκῠες árkues | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἄρκυλον (árkulon)
- ἄρκυον (árkuon)
Further reading
- “ἄρκυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄρκυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄρκυς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἄρκυς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 133