Κνίδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly form κνίδη (knídē, “stinging needle”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kní.dos/ → /ˈkni.ðos/ → /ˈkni.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kní.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkni.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkni.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkni.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkni.ðos/

Proper noun

Κνῐ́δος • (Knídos) f (genitive Κνῐ́δου); second declension

1. Cnidus (Knidos, south-western Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Κνῐ́δος; τοῦ Κνῐ́δου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Κνῐ́δος ho Knídos
Genitive	τοῦ Κνῐ́δου toû Knídou
Dative	τῷ Κνῐ́δῳ tôi Knídōi
Accusative	τὸν Κνῐ́δον tòn Knídon
Vocative	Κνῐ́δε Kníde
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Κνίδος (Knídos)
• Latin: Cnidus
• Turkish: Knidos

References

• “Κνίδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G2834 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,006

Further reading

• Knidos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia