ὄρκυς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὀρκύαλος (orkúalos), ὄρκῡνος (órkūnos)
Etymology
Unexplained loanword. Probably Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix and meaning.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ór.kyːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈor.kys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.cys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.cys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.cis/
Noun
ὄρκῡς • (órkūs) f (genitive ὄρκῡνος); third declension
- large kind of tunny
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ ὄρκῡς; τοῦ ὄρκῡνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὄρκῡς ho órkūs | τὼ ὄρκῡνε tṑ órkūne | οἱ ὄρκῡνες hoi órkūnes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὄρκῡνος toû órkūnos | τοῖν ὀρκῡ́νοιν toîn orkū́noin | τῶν ὀρκῡ́νων tôn orkū́nōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὄρκῡνῐ tôi órkūni | τοῖν ὀρκῡ́νοιν toîn orkū́noin | τοῖς ὄρκῡσῐ / ὄρκῡσῐν toîs órkūsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὄρκῡνᾰ tòn órkūna | τὼ ὄρκῡνε tṑ órkūne | τοὺς ὄρκῡνᾰς toùs órkūnas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄρκῡν órkūn | ὄρκῡνε órkūne | ὄρκῡνες órkūnes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀρκῡνεῖον (orkūneîon)
Further reading
- “ὄρκυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὄρκυς 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