καδύτας

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κασύτας (kasútas)

Etymology

From Aramaic, represented by Jewish Babylonian Aramaic כְּשׁוּתָא (kəšūṯā, “dodder”), Classical Syriac ܟܫܽܘܬܳܐ (kəšūṯā, “dodder”), Arabic كُشُوث (kušūṯ, “dodder”). See these entries for their possible origin. According to de Lagarde καδύτας is completely unreal as a transcription error, that however Pliny already had in his manuscript of Theophrast, and only κασύτας (kasútas) has been spoken.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.dý.taːs/ → /kaˈðy.tas/ → /kaˈði.tas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.dý.taːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈdy.tas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈðy.tas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈðy.tas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈði.tas/

Noun

κᾰδύτᾱς • (kădútās) m (genitive κᾰδύτου); first declension

1. love vine (Cassytha filiformis)

Inflection

First declension of ὁ κᾰδύτᾱς; τοῦ κᾰδύτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰδύτᾱς ho kădútās	τὼ κᾰδύτᾱ tṑ kădútā	οἱ κᾰδύται hoi kădútai
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰδύτου toû kădútou	τοῖν κᾰδύταιν toîn kădútain	τῶν κᾰδυτῶν tôn kădutôn
Dative	τῷ κᾰδύτᾳ tôi kădútāi	τοῖν κᾰδύταιν toîn kădútain	τοῖς κᾰδύταις toîs kădútais
Accusative	τὸν κᾰδύτᾱν tòn kădútān	τὼ κᾰδύτᾱ tṑ kădútā	τοὺς κᾰδύτᾱς toùs kădútās
Vocative	κᾰδύτᾱ kădútā	κᾰδύτᾱ kădútā	κᾰδύται kădútai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cassytas, cassythas, cadytas
  • → Translingual: Cassytha

Further reading

• “καδύτας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καδύτας 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
• Lagarde, Paul de (1887) Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, pages 358–359