κόκκαλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, kernel”). Compare Ancient Greek Κώκαλος (Kṓkalos).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

κόκκᾰλος • (kókkălos) m (genitive κοκκᾰ́λου); second declension

1. (botany) pine kernel, the seed of the pinecone

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κόκκᾰλος; τοῦ κοκκᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόκκᾰλος ho kókkălos	τὼ κοκκᾰ́λω tṑ kokkắlō	οἱ κόκκᾰλοι hoi kókkăloi
Genitive	τοῦ κοκκᾰ́λου toû kokkắlou	τοῖν κοκκᾰ́λοιν toîn kokkắloin	τῶν κοκκᾰ́λων tôn kokkắlōn
Dative	τῷ κοκκᾰ́λῳ tôi kokkắlōi	τοῖν κοκκᾰ́λοιν toîn kokkắloin	τοῖς κοκκᾰ́λοις toîs kokkắlois
Accusative	τὸν κόκκᾰλον tòn kókkălon	τὼ κοκκᾰ́λω tṑ kokkắlō	τοὺς κοκκᾰ́λους toùs kokkắlous
Vocative	κόκκᾰλε kókkăle	κοκκᾰ́λω kokkắlō	κόκκᾰλοι kókkăloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: κόκκαλον (kókkalon)
  • Greek: κόκαλο (kókalo)
  • → Romani: kòkalo, kokalo
    • → Romanian: cocal

Further reading

• “κόκκαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόκκαλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette