Καύκασος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to elevate; height”),[1] or borrowed from Iranian, compare Middle Persian *Kaf kōf (“Mount Qaf, Caucasus mountains”).[2]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Καύκᾰσος • (Kaúkăsos) m (genitive Καυκᾰ́σου); second declension

  1. Caucasus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Καύκᾰσος; τοῦ Καυκᾰ́σου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Καύκᾰσος
ho Kaúkăsos
Genitive τοῦ Καυκᾰ́σου
toû Kaukắsou
Dative τῷ Καυκᾰ́σῳ
tōî Kaukắsōi
Accusative τὸν Καύκᾰσον
tòn Kaúkăson
Vocative Καύκᾰσε
Kaúkăse
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • Καυκᾰ́σῐον (Kaukắsĭon)

Descendants

  • Greek: Καύκασος (Káfkasos)
  • → Arabic: القَوْقَاز (al-qawqāz)
  • → Old Armenian: Կովկաս (Kovkas), Կաւկաս (Kawkas)
  • → Estonian: Kaukaasia
  • → Georgian: კავკასია (ḳavḳasia)
  • Greek: Καύκασος (Káfkasos)
  • → Hebrew: קווקז (Kavkáz, Qawqáz)
  • → Latin: Caucasus (see there for further descendants)
  • → Russian: Кавка́з (Kavkáz)
  • → Turkish: Kafkasya

References

  1. ^ Solmsen, Felix (1909) Beiträge zur griechischen Wortforschung (in German), volume I, Strassburg: Verlag von Karl J. Trübner, →ISBN, page 88
  2. ^ Lieu, Samuel N. C. (2012) “Caucasus”, in Places and peoples in Central Asia and in the Graeco-Roman Near East: A multilingual gazetteer compiled for the Serica Project from select Pre-Islamic sources‎[1], page 8b

Further reading

  • “Καύκασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Καύκασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,005

Greek

Proper noun

Καύκασος • (Káfkasos)

  1. Caucasus

Inflection

Declension of Καύκασος
singular
nominative Καύκασος (Káfkasos)
genitive Καυκάσου (Kafkásou)
accusative Καύκασο (Káfkaso)
vocative Καύκασε (Káfkase)

Derived terms

  • Καυκασία (Kafkasía)
  • Καυκάσιος (Kafkásios)
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