εἰκάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εἴκοσῐ (eíkosĭ, “twenty”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eː.kás/ → /iˈkas/ → /iˈkas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eː.kás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈkas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈkas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈkas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈkas/

Noun

εἰκᾰ́ς • (eikắs) f (genitive εἰκᾰ́δος); third declension

1. The twentieth day of the month
2. (in the plural) The last ten days of the month

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ εἰκᾰ́ς; τῆς εἰκᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εἰκᾰ́ς hē eikắs	τὼ εἰκᾰ́δε tṑ eikắde	αἱ εἰκᾰ́δες hai eikắdes
Genitive	τῆς εἰκᾰ́δος tês eikắdos	τοῖν εἰκᾰ́δοιν toîn eikắdoin	τῶν εἰκᾰ́δων tôn eikắdōn
Dative	τῇ εἰκᾰ́δῐ têi eikắdĭ	τοῖν εἰκᾰ́δοιν toîn eikắdoin	ταῖς εἰκᾰ́σῐ / εἰκᾰ́σῐν taîs eikắsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν εἰκᾰ́δᾰ tḕn eikắdă	τὼ εἰκᾰ́δε tṑ eikắde	τᾱ̀ς εἰκᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s eikắdăs
Vocative	εἰκᾰ́ς eikắs	εἰκᾰ́δε eikắde	εἰκᾰ́δες eikắdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Latin: īcas

References

• “εἰκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἰκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εἰκάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• εἰκάς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• εἰκάς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften