καιετός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of καιάδᾱς (kaiádās, “underground cavern”), with a reshaping after ὀχετός (okhetós, “waterpipe, conduit”) and κάπετος (kápetos, “ditch, trench”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kai̯.e.tós/ → /cɛ.eˈtos/ → /ce.eˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kai̯.e.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kɛ.eˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cɛ.eˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ce.eˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ce.eˈtos/

Noun

καιετός • (kaietós) m (genitive καιετοῦ); second declension

1. fissure produced by an earthquake

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ καιετός; τοῦ καιετοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ καιετός ho kaietós	τὼ καιετώ tṑ kaietṓ	οἱ καιετοί hoi kaietoí
Genitive	τοῦ καιετοῦ toû kaietoû	τοῖν καιετοῖν toîn kaietoîn	τῶν καιετῶν tôn kaietôn
Dative	τῷ καιετῷ tôi kaietôi	τοῖν καιετοῖν toîn kaietoîn	τοῖς καιετοῖς toîs kaietoîs
Accusative	τὸν καιετόν tòn kaietón	τὼ καιετώ tṑ kaietṓ	τοὺς καιετούς toùs kaietoús
Vocative	καιετέ kaieté	καιετώ kaietṓ	καιετοί kaietoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “καιετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “καιάδᾱς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 615