κάνης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κάννα (kánna, “cane”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.nɛːs/ → /ka.nis/ → /ka.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.nɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.ne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.nis/

Noun

κᾰ́νης • (kắnēs) m (genitive κᾰ́νητος); third declension

1. mat made of reeds

   Synonyms: σάμαξ (sámax), ψίαθος (psíathos)

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ κᾰ́νης; τοῦ κᾰ́νητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰ́νης ho kắnēs	τὼ κᾰ́νητε tṑ kắnēte	οἱ κᾰ́νητες hoi kắnētes
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰ́νητος toû kắnētos	τοῖν κᾰνήτοιν toîn kănḗtoin	τῶν κᾰνήτων tôn kănḗtōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰ́νητῐ tôi kắnētĭ	τοῖν κᾰνήτοιν toîn kănḗtoin	τοῖς κᾰ́νησῐ / κᾰ́νησῐν toîs kắnēsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν κᾰ́νητᾰ tòn kắnētă	τὼ κᾰ́νητε tṑ kắnēte	τοὺς κᾰ́νητᾰς toùs kắnētăs
Vocative	κᾰ́νης kắnēs	κᾰ́νητε kắnēte	κᾰ́νητες kắnētes
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 *-ts.

Derived terms

• κανήτιον (kanḗtion)
• κανητοποιός (kanētopoiós)

 

Further reading

• “κάνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κάνης 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