καυνάκης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γαυνάκης (gaunákēs)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *gaunaka (literally “hairy”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kau̯.ná.kɛːs/ → /kaˈβna.cis/ → /kaˈvna.cis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kau̯.ná.kɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kawˈna.ke̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈβna.cis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈvna.cis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈvna.cis/

Noun

καυνᾰ́κης • (kaunắkēs) m (genitive καυνᾰ́κου); first declension

1. thick cloak said to be of Persian or Babylonian make

Inflection

First declension of ὁ καυνᾰ́κης; τοῦ καυνᾰ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ καυνᾰ́κης ho kaunắkēs	τὼ καυνᾰ́κᾱ tṑ kaunắkā	οἱ καυνᾰ́και hoi kaunắkai
Genitive	τοῦ καυνᾰ́κου toû kaunắkou	τοῖν καυνᾰ́καιν toîn kaunắkain	τῶν καυνᾰκῶν tôn kaunăkôn
Dative	τῷ καυνᾰ́κῃ tôi kaunắkēi	τοῖν καυνᾰ́καιν toîn kaunắkain	τοῖς καυνᾰ́καις toîs kaunắkais
Accusative	τὸν καυνᾰ́κην tòn kaunắkēn	τὼ καυνᾰ́κᾱ tṑ kaunắkā	τοὺς καυνᾰ́κᾱς toùs kaunắkās
Vocative	καυνᾰ́κη kaunắkē	καυνᾰ́κᾱ kaunắkā	καυνᾰ́και kaunắkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καυνάκιον (kaunákion)

Further reading

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