κέρθιος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained; the word hardly belongs to κρέξ (kréx). Likely from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kér.tʰi.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈker.tʰi.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcer.θi.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcer.θi.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcer.θi.os/
Noun
κέρθῐος • (kérthĭos) m (genitive κερθίου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κέρθῐος ho kérthĭos |
τὼ κερθῐ́ω tṑ kerthĭ́ō |
οἱ κέρθῐοι hoi kérthĭoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κερθῐ́ου toû kerthĭ́ou |
τοῖν κερθῐ́οιν toîn kerthĭ́oin |
τῶν κερθῐ́ων tôn kerthĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κερθῐ́ῳ tōî kerthĭ́ōi |
τοῖν κερθῐ́οιν toîn kerthĭ́oin |
τοῖς κερθῐ́οις toîs kerthĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κέρθῐον tòn kérthĭon |
τὼ κερθῐ́ω tṑ kerthĭ́ō |
τοὺς κερθῐ́ους toùs kerthĭ́ous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κέρθῐε kérthĭe |
κερθῐ́ω kerthĭ́ō |
κέρθῐοι kérthĭoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Certhia
Further reading
- “κέρθιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κέρθιος 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