κόϊξ

Ancient Greek

Possibly related to σκοίκιον (skoíkion, “vessel, receptacle”), in which case it is from Pre-Greek.

κόϊξ • (kóïx) m (genitive κόϊκος); third declension

doum palm, Hyphaene thebaica
Synonym: κοῦκι (koûki)
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 1.10.5
basket made from palm leaves
- 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Fragmenta 78
- 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 63
- 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 113

Third declension of ὁ κόϊξ; τοῦ κόϊκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόϊξ ho kóïx	τὼ κόϊκε tṑ kóïke	οἱ κόϊκες hoi kóïkes
Genitive	τοῦ κόϊκος toû kóïkos	τοῖν κοΐκοιν toîn koḯkoin	τῶν κοΐκων tôn koḯkōn
Dative	τῷ κόϊκῐ tōî kóïkĭ	τοῖν κοΐκοιν toîn koḯkoin	τοῖς κόϊξῐ / κόϊξῐν toîs kóïxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν κόϊκᾰ tòn kóïkă	τὼ κόϊκε tṑ kóïke	τοὺς κόϊκᾰς toùs kóïkăs
Vocative	κόϊξ kóïx	κόϊκε kóïke	κόϊκες kóïkes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“κόϊξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 731-732