γυργαθός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γέργαθος (gérgathos), γύργαθον (gúrgathon), γύργαθος (gúrgathos)

Etymology

According to Beekes either from Proto-Indo-European *ǵers- (“to twist; to plait”), like γέρρον (gérrhon), or from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡyr.ɡa.tʰós/ → /ʝyr.ɣaˈθos/ → /ʝir.ɣaˈθos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡyr.ɡa.tʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɡyr.ɡaˈtʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ʝyr.ɣaˈθos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ʝyr.ɣaˈθos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ʝir.ɣaˈθos/

Noun

γυργᾰθός • (gurgăthós) m (genitive γυργᾰθοῦ); second declension

1. wicker basket, creel
2. net woven by tarantulas
3. cage for insane patients

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ γυργᾰθός; τοῦ γυργᾰθοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ γυργᾰθός ho gurgăthós	τὼ γυργᾰθώ tṑ gurgăthṓ	οἱ γυργᾰθοί hoi gurgăthoí
Genitive	τοῦ γυργᾰθοῦ toû gurgăthoû	τοῖν γυργᾰθοῖν toîn gurgăthoîn	τῶν γυργᾰθῶν tôn gurgăthôn
Dative	τῷ γυργᾰθῷ tôi gurgăthôi	τοῖν γυργᾰθοῖν toîn gurgăthoîn	τοῖς γυργᾰθοῖς toîs gurgăthoîs
Accusative	τὸν γυργᾰθόν tòn gurgăthón	τὼ γυργᾰθώ tṑ gurgăthṓ	τοὺς γυργᾰθούς toùs gurgăthoús
Vocative	γυργᾰθέ gurgăthé	γυργᾰθώ gurgăthṓ	γυργᾰθοί gurgăthoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• γυργαθίον (gurgathíon)

Further reading

• “γυργαθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γυργαθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γυργαθός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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