κηθίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, maybe of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛː.tʰís/ → /ciˈθis/ → /ciˈθis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.tʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝ˈtʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈθis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈθis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈθis/

Noun

κηθίς • (kēthís) f (genitive κηθίδος); third declension

1. dicebox

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κηθῐ́ς; τῆς κηθῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κηθῐ́ς hē kēthĭ́s	τὼ κηθῐ́δε tṑ kēthĭ́de	αἱ κηθῐ́δες hai kēthĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς κηθῐ́δος tês kēthĭ́dos	τοῖν κηθῐ́δοιν toîn kēthĭ́doin	τῶν κηθῐ́δων tôn kēthĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ κηθῐ́δῐ têi kēthĭ́dĭ	τοῖν κηθῐ́δοιν toîn kēthĭ́doin	ταῖς κηθῐ́σῐ / κηθῐ́σῐν taîs kēthĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κηθῐ́δᾰ tḕn kēthĭ́dă	τὼ κηθῐ́δε tṑ kēthĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς κηθῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kēthĭ́dăs
Vocative	κηθῐ́ς kēthĭ́s	κηθῐ́δε kēthĭ́de	κηθῐ́δες kēthĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• κηθάριον (kēthárion)
• κηθίδιον (kēthídion)
• κήθιον (kḗthion)

 

Further reading

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