κίσθος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κῐ́στος (kĭ́stos)
Etymology
According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kís.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkis.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcis.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcis.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcis.θos/
Noun
κίσθος • (kísthos) m (genitive κίσθου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κῐ́σθος ho kĭ́sthos |
τὼ κῐ́σθω tṑ kĭ́sthō |
οἱ κῐ́σθοι hoi kĭ́sthoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κῐ́σθου toû kĭ́sthou |
τοῖν κῐ́σθοιν toîn kĭ́sthoin |
τῶν κῐ́σθων tôn kĭ́sthōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κῐ́σθῳ tōî kĭ́sthōi |
τοῖν κῐ́σθοιν toîn kĭ́sthoin |
τοῖς κῐ́σθοις toîs kĭ́sthois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κῐ́σθον tòn kĭ́sthon |
τὼ κῐ́σθω tṑ kĭ́sthō |
τοὺς κῐ́σθους toùs kĭ́sthous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῐ́σθε kĭ́sthe |
κῐ́σθω kĭ́sthō |
κῐ́σθοι kĭ́sthoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Arabic: قِسْتُوس (qistūs), قَلْسُوس (qalsūs), قَسُّوس (qassūs)
- → Latin: cisthos
- Translingual: Cistus
Further reading
- “κίσθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κίσθος 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