κόνδυ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Like many words ending in -ῠ, it is a loanword. Furnée compares κοτύλη (kotúlē, “cup”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin, while Szemerényi refers to late Neo-Babylonian 𒃶𒁺 (kandu, “vessel”) which is considered a West Semitic borrowing: Aramaic כנדא (kandā, “vessel, pot; specifically for wine”), found also in the forms כַּד (kaḏ), כדא (kaddā), Biblical Hebrew כַּד (kad), Punic 𐤊𐤃 (kd), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎄 (kd), and Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kón.dy/ → /ˈkon.dy/ → /ˈkon.di/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kón.dy/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.dy/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.dy/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.dy/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.di/

Noun

κόνδῠ • (kóndu) n (genitive κόνδῠος); third declension

1. a kind of drinking vessel
2. a unit of volume derived from the vessel

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κόνδῠ; τοῦ κόνδῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κόνδῠ tò kóndu	τὼ κόνδῠε tṑ kóndue	τᾰ̀ κόνδῠᾰ tà kóndua
Genitive	τοῦ κόνδῠος toû kónduos	τοῖν κονδῠ́οιν toîn kondúoin	τῶν κονδῠ́ων tôn kondúōn
Dative	τῷ κόνδῠῐ̈ tôi kónduï	τοῖν κονδῠ́οιν toîn kondúoin	τοῖς κόνδῠσῐ / κόνδῠσῐν toîs kóndusi(n)
Accusative	τὸ κόνδῠ tò kóndu	τὼ κόνδῠε tṑ kóndue	τᾰ̀ κόνδῠᾰ tà kóndua
Vocative	κόνδῠ kóndu	κόνδῠε kóndue	κόνδῠᾰ kóndua
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Condy
• Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Condy
• “κόνδυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόνδυ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόνδυ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 745