κόστος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κόστον (kóston)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kós.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkos.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkos.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkos.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkos.tos/
Noun
κόστος • (kóstos) m (genitive κόστου); second declension
- costus (Saussurea costus), used as a spice
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κόστος ho kóstos |
τὼ κόστω tṑ kóstō |
οἱ κόστοι hoi kóstoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κόστου toû kóstou |
τοῖν κόστοιν toîn kóstoin |
τῶν κόστων tôn kóstōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κόστῳ tōî kóstōi |
τοῖν κόστοιν toîn kóstoin |
τοῖς κόστοις toîs kóstois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κόστον tòn kóston |
τὼ κόστω tṑ kóstō |
τοὺς κόστους toùs kóstous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κόστε kóste |
κόστω kóstō |
κόστοι kóstoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κοστόϊνος (kostóïnos)
Descendants
Further reading
- “κόστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόστος 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
Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈko.stos/
Noun
κόστος • (kóstos) n (plural κόστη)
- (finance) cost
- money or effort expended in achieving something
- (finance) cost price
- rate
- consequences
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | κόστος (kóstos) | κόστη (kósti) |
| genitive | κόστους (kóstous) | κοστών (kostón) |
| accusative | κόστος (kóstos) | κόστη (kósti) |
| vocative | κόστος (kóstos) | κόστη (kósti) |