κύτισος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Pre-Greek. Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀳𐀰 (ku-te-so).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ký.ti.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.ti.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.ti.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.ti.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.ti.sos/
Noun
κῠ́τῐσος • (kŭ́tĭsos) m or f (genitive κῠτῐ́σου); second declension
- tree medick, moon trefoil (Medicago arborea)
- Synonym: τηλίνη (tēlínē)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ κῠ́τῐσος ho, hē kŭ́tĭsos |
τὼ κῠτῐ́σω tṑ kŭtĭ́sō |
οἱ, αἱ κῠ́τῐσοι hoi, hai kŭ́tĭsoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς κῠτῐ́σου toû, tês kŭtĭ́sou |
τοῖν κῠτῐ́σοιν toîn kŭtĭ́soin |
τῶν κῠτῐ́σων tôn kŭtĭ́sōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ κῠτῐ́σῳ tōî, tēî kŭtĭ́sōi |
τοῖν κῠτῐ́σοιν toîn kŭtĭ́soin |
τοῖς, ταῖς κῠτῐ́σοις toîs, taîs kŭtĭ́sois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν κῠ́τῐσον tòn, tḕn kŭ́tĭson |
τὼ κῠτῐ́σω tṑ kŭtĭ́sō |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κῠτῐ́σους toùs, tā̀s kŭtĭ́sous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῠ́τῐσε kŭ́tĭse |
κῠτῐ́σω kŭtĭ́sō |
κῠ́τῐσοι kŭ́tĭsoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “κύτισος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κύτισος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κύτισος 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