κορωνίς

See also: Κορωνίς

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 13 March 2015

From κορωνός (korōnós, “curved”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ĭ́s).

κορωνῐ́ς • (korōnĭ́s) f (genitive κορωνῐ́δος); third declension

something crook-beaked or curved
1. a cow with crumpled horns
anything curved or bent
1. a wreath or garland
2. a curved line or stroke, flourish
  1. (figuratively) end, completion
  2. the mark of crasis or apostrophe, i.e. a breathing mark in the middle of a word, which only appears in words formed by crasis, such as in ταὐτός (tautós)

Third declension of ἡ κορωνῐ́ς; τῆς κορωνῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κορωνῐ́ς hē korōnĭ́s	τὼ κορωνῐ́δε tṑ korōnĭ́de	αἱ κορωνῐ́δες hai korōnĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς κορωνῐ́δος tês korōnĭ́dos	τοῖν κορωνῐ́δοιν toîn korōnĭ́doin	τῶν κορωνῐ́δων tôn korōnĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ κορωνῐ́δῐ tēî korōnĭ́dĭ	τοῖν κορωνῐ́δοιν toîn korōnĭ́doin	ταῖς κορωνῐ́σῐ / κορωνῐ́σῐν taîs korōnĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κορωνῐ́δᾰ tḕn korōnĭ́dă	τὼ κορωνῐ́δε tṑ korōnĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς κορωνῐ́δᾰς tā̀s korōnĭ́dăs
Vocative	κορωνῐ́ korōnĭ́	κορωνῐ́δε korōnĭ́de	κορωνῐ́δες korōnĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

(προσῳδίαι ἑλληνικαί) προσῳδία; βαρεῖα ⟨ ` ⟩, βραχεῖα ⟨ ˘ ⟩, δασεῖα ⟨ ῾ ⟩, διαίρεσις ⟨ ¨ ⟩, κορωνίς ⟨ ᾽ ⟩, μακρά ⟨ ¯ ⟩, ὀξεῖα ⟨ ´ ⟩, περισπωμένη ⟨ ῀ ⟩, προσγεγραμμένη ⟨ ι ⟩, ὑπογεγραμμένη ⟨ ͺ ⟩, ψιλή ⟨ ᾿ ⟩ ^{(Category: grc:Diacritical marks)}

“κορωνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κορωνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“κορωνίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
κορωνίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
κορωνίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963