καῦκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Schrijver compares Old Irish cuach (“cup”), suggesting a derivation from Proto-Celtic *kaɸukos (“cup”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, hold”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kâu̯.kos/ → /ˈkaɸ.kos/ → /ˈkaf.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kâu̯.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʍ.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɸ.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkaf.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkaf.kos/

Noun

καῦκος • (kaûkos) m (genitive καύκου); second declension

1. kind of cup

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ καῦκος; τοῦ καύκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ καῦκος ho kaûkos	τὼ καύκω tṑ kaúkō	οἱ καῦκοι hoi kaûkoi
Genitive	τοῦ καύκου toû kaúkou	τοῖν καύκοιν toîn kaúkoin	τῶν καύκων tôn kaúkōn
Dative	τῷ καύκῳ tôi kaúkōi	τοῖν καύκοιν toîn kaúkoin	τοῖς καύκοις toîs kaúkois
Accusative	τὸν καῦκον tòn kaûkon	τὼ καύκω tṑ kaúkō	τοὺς καύκους toùs kaúkous
Vocative	καῦκε kaûke	καύκω kaúkō	καῦκοι kaûkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καυκίον (kaukíon)

Descendants

• → Latin: caucus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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