κέρθιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained; the word hardly belongs to κρέξ (kréx). Likely from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kér.tʰi.os/ → /ˈcer.θi.os/ → /ˈcer.θi.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kér.tʰi.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈker.tʰi.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.θi.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.θi.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.θi.os/

Noun

κέρθῐος • (kérthĭos) m (genitive κερθίου); second declension

1. treecreeper (Certhia familiaris)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κέρθῐος; τοῦ κερθῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κέρθῐος ho kérthĭos	τὼ κερθῐ́ω tṑ kerthĭ́ō	οἱ κέρθῐοι hoi kérthĭoi
Genitive	τοῦ κερθῐ́ου toû kerthĭ́ou	τοῖν κερθῐ́οιν toîn kerthĭ́oin	τῶν κερθῐ́ων tôn kerthĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ κερθῐ́ῳ tôi kerthĭ́ōi	τοῖν κερθῐ́οιν toîn kerthĭ́oin	τοῖς κερθῐ́οις toîs kerthĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸν κέρθῐον tòn kérthĭon	τὼ κερθῐ́ω tṑ kerthĭ́ō	τοὺς κερθῐ́ους toùs kerthĭ́ous
Vocative	κέρθῐε kérthĭe	κερθῐ́ω kerthĭ́ō	κέρθῐοι kérthĭoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Certhia

Further reading

• “κέρθιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κέρθιος 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