κοττίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κοτίς (kotís)

Etymology

Connection with κοτύλη (kotúlē, “bowl, dish”) is a mere guess. Furnée connects this word with σκύτη (skútē, “head”); the geminate is not expressive, but rather points to Pre-Greek origin.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kot.tís/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kotˈtis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kotˈtis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kotˈtis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈtis/

Noun

κοττῐ́ς • (kottĭ́s) f (genitive κοττῐ́δος); third declension

Doric form of κεφαλή (kephalḗ)
hairstyle with long hair on the forehead

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κοττῐ́ς; τῆς κοττῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κοττῐ́ς hē kottĭ́s	τὼ κοττῐ́δε tṑ kottĭ́de	αἱ κοττῐ́δες hai kottĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς κοττῐ́δος tês kottĭ́dos	τοῖν κοττῐ́δοιν toîn kottĭ́doin	τῶν κοττῐ́δων tôn kottĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ κοττῐ́δῐ tēî kottĭ́dĭ	τοῖν κοττῐ́δοιν toîn kottĭ́doin	ταῖς κοττῐ́σῐ / κοττῐ́σῐν taîs kottĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κοττῐ́δᾰ tḕn kottĭ́dă	τὼ κοττῐ́δε tṑ kottĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς κοττῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kottĭ́dăs
Vocative	κοττῐ́ς kottĭ́s	κοττῐ́δε kottĭ́de	κοττῐ́δες kottĭ́des
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.

Derived terms

προκόττα (prokótta)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κοττίς, -ίδος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 762