κονίς

See also: κόνις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *-níd-. Cognates include Old Armenian անիծ (anic), Albanian thëri, Old English hnitu (English nit).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.nís/ → /koˈnis/ → /koˈnis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.nís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈnis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈnis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈnis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈnis/

Noun

κονῐ́ς • (konís) f (genitive κονῐ́δος); third declension

1. (usually in the plural) nit, egg of a flea, louse

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κονῐ́ς; τῆς κονῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κονῐ́ς hē konís	τὼ κονῐ́δε tṑ koníde	αἱ κονῐ́δες hai konídes
Genitive	τῆς κονῐ́δος tês konídos	τοῖν κονῐ́δοιν toîn konídoin	τῶν κονῐ́δων tôn konídōn
Dative	τῇ κονῐ́δῐ têi konídi	τοῖν κονῐ́δοιν toîn konídoin	ταῖς κονῐ́σῐ / κονῐ́σῐν taîs konísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κονῐ́δᾰ tḕn konída	τὼ κονῐ́δε tṑ koníde	τᾱ̀ς κονῐ́δᾰς tā̀s konídas
Vocative	κονῐ́ς konís	κονῐ́δε koníde	κονῐ́δες konídes
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.

References

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