κνῆκος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier κνᾶκος, from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks. Cognate with English honey, Albanian qengjë (“beehive”) and Latin canicae (“bran”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /knɛ̂ː.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkne̝.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkni.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkni.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkni.kos/
Noun
[edit]κνῆκος • (knêkos) f (genitive κνῆκου); second declension
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κνῆκος hē knêkos |
τὼ κνήκω tṑ knḗkō |
αἱ κνῆκοι hai knêkoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κνήκου tês knḗkou |
τοῖν κνήκοιν toîn knḗkoin |
τῶν κνήκων tôn knḗkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κνήκῳ têi knḗkōi |
τοῖν κνήκοιν toîn knḗkoin |
ταῖς κνήκοις taîs knḗkois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κνῆκον tḕn knêkon |
τὼ κνήκω tṑ knḗkō |
τᾱ̀ς κνήκους tā̀s knḗkous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κνῆκε knêke |
κνήκω knḗkō |
κνῆκοι knêkoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Latin: cnēcos
Further reading
[edit]- “κνῆκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κνῆκος 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
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