κόκκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Pre-Greek. Potential cognates include Spanish cuesco (“stone (of fruit)”), though this is rejected by Furnee.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kók.kos/ → /ˈko.kos/ → /ˈko.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kók.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kos/

Noun

κόκκος • (kókkos) m (genitive κόκκου); second declension

1. grain, seed, kernel
2. The kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
3. insects of the genus Kermes, which live on the oak.
4. A scarlet dye made from the crushed bodies of the kermes bugs
5. scarletberry (Solanum dulcamara)
6. the colour scarlet
7. testicle

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κόκκος; τοῦ κόκκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόκκος ho kókkos	τὼ κόκκω tṑ kókkō	οἱ κόκκοι hoi kókkoi
Genitive	τοῦ κόκκου toû kókkou	τοῖν κόκκοιν toîn kókkoin	τῶν κόκκων tôn kókkōn
Dative	τῷ κόκκῳ tôi kókkōi	τοῖν κόκκοιν toîn kókkoin	τοῖς κόκκοις toîs kókkois
Accusative	τὸν κόκκον tòn kókkon	τὼ κόκκω tṑ kókkō	τοὺς κόκκους toùs kókkous
Vocative	κόκκε kókke	κόκκω kókkō	κόκκοι kókkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κόκκᾰλος (kókkalos)
• κόκκῐνος (kókkinos)
• κοκκοθραύστης (kokkothraústēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: κόκκος (kókkos)
• → Latin: coccum (see there for further descendants)
• →? Albanian: kokë

Further reading

• “κόκκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόκκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόκκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2848 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κόκκος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos).

Noun

κόκκος • (kókkos) m (plural κόκκοι)

1. speck, grain, particle

Declension

Declension of κόκκος

	singular	plural
nominative	κόκκος (kókkos)	κόκκοι (kókkoi)
genitive	κόκκου (kókkou)	κόκκων (kókkon)
accusative	κόκκο (kókko)	κόκκους (kókkous)
vocative	κόκκε (kókke)	κόκκοι (kókkoi)

Related terms

• στρεπτόκοκκος m (streptókokkos, “streptococcus”)