κοιτίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κοίτη (koítē) +‎ -ίς (-ís)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /koi̯.tís/ → /cyˈtis/ → /ciˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /koi̯.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈtis/

Noun

κοιτίς • (koitís) f (genitive κοιτίδος); third declension

1. box
2. basket

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κοιτί̆ς; τῆς κοιτῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κοιτί̆ς hē koitís	τὼ κοιτῐ́δε tṑ koitíde	αἱ κοιτῐ́δες hai koitídes
Genitive	τῆς κοιτῐ́δος tês koitídos	τοῖν κοιτῐ́δοιν toîn koitídoin	τῶν κοιτῐ́δων tôn koitídōn
Dative	τῇ κοιτῐ́δῐ têi koitídi	τοῖν κοιτῐ́δοιν toîn koitídoin	ταῖς κοιτῐ́σῐ / κοιτῐ́σῐν taîs koitísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κοιτῐ́δᾰ tḕn koitída	τὼ κοιτῐ́δε tṑ koitíde	τᾱ̀ς κοιτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s koitídas
Vocative	κοιτί̆ς koitís	κοιτῐ́δε koitíde	κοιτῐ́δες koitídes
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.

Further reading

• κοιτίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κοιτίς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “κοιτίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press