Κύνθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The name's meaning is unknown, but suggestive of Pre-Greek forms.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Κῠ́νθος • (Kŭ́nthos) m (genitive Κῠ́νθου); second declension

  1. Cynthus, a mountain in Delos, Cyclades, Greece

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Κῠ́νθος; τοῦ Κῠ́νθου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Κῠ́νθος
ho Kŭ́nthos
Genitive τοῦ Κῠ́νθου
toû Kŭ́nthou
Dative τῷ Κῠ́νθῳ
tōî Kŭ́nthōi
Accusative τὸν Κῠ́νθον
tòn Kŭ́nthon
Vocative Κῠ́νθε
Kŭ́nthe
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: Κύνθος (Kýnthos)
  • → Latin: Cynthus

References

  • “Κύνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Κύνθος”, 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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007
  • 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
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