κίκιννος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. A prenasalized *κίγκιννος (*kínkinnos) is assumed source of Latin cincinnus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kí.kin.nos/ → /ˈci.cin.nos/ → /ˈci.ci.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kí.kin.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈki.kin.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.cin.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.cin.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ci.nos/

Noun

κῐ́κῐννος • (kĭ́kĭnnos) m (genitive κῐκῐ́ννου); second declension

1. lock of curly hair.
2. ringlet.

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κῐ́κῐννος; τοῦ κῐκῐ́ννου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῐ́κῐννος ho kĭ́kĭnnos	τὼ κῐκῐ́ννω tṑ kĭkĭ́nnō	οἱ κῐ́κῐννοι hoi kĭ́kĭnnoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῐκῐ́ννου toû kĭkĭ́nnou	τοῖν κῐκῐ́ννοιν toîn kĭkĭ́nnoin	τῶν κῐκῐ́ννων tôn kĭkĭ́nnōn
Dative	τῷ κῐκῐ́ννῳ tôi kĭkĭ́nnōi	τοῖν κῐκῐ́ννοιν toîn kĭkĭ́nnoin	τοῖς κῐκῐ́ννοις toîs kĭkĭ́nnois
Accusative	τὸν κῐ́κῐννον tòn kĭ́kĭnnon	τὼ κῐκῐ́ννω tṑ kĭkĭ́nnō	τοὺς κῐκῐ́ννους toùs kĭkĭ́nnous
Vocative	κῐ́κῐννε kĭ́kĭnne	κῐκῐ́ννω kĭkĭ́nnō	κῐ́κῐννοι kĭ́kĭnnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cincinnus
  • Italian: cincinno

Further reading

• “κίκιννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίκιννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • curl idem, page 190.
  • ringlet idem, page 716.
• 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