κότινος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, probably a loanword from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.ti.nos/ → /ˈko.ti.nos/ → /ˈko.ti.nos/

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

Noun

κότῐνος • (kótĭnos) m (genitive κοτίνου); second declension

1. wild olive tree (Olea europaea, syn. Olea oleaster)

   Synonym: ἄγριππος (ágrippos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κότῐνος; τοῦ κοτῐ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κότῐνος ho kótĭnos	τὼ κοτῐ́νω tṑ kotĭ́nō	οἱ κότῐνοι hoi kótĭnoi
Genitive	τοῦ κοτῐ́νου toû kotĭ́nou	τοῖν κοτῐ́νοιν toîn kotĭ́noin	τῶν κοτῐ́νων tôn kotĭ́nōn
Dative	τῷ κοτῐ́νῳ tôi kotĭ́nōi	τοῖν κοτῐ́νοιν toîn kotĭ́noin	τοῖς κοτῐ́νοις toîs kotĭ́nois
Accusative	τὸν κότῐνον tòn kótĭnon	τὼ κοτῐ́νω tṑ kotĭ́nō	τοὺς κοτῐ́νους toùs kotĭ́nous
Vocative	κότῐνε kótĭne	κοτῐ́νω kotĭ́nō	κότῐνοι kótĭnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κοτινάς (kotinás)
• κοτινηφόρος (kotinēphóros)
• κοτινοτράγος (kotinotrágos)

Descendants

• → Latin: cotinus
• → Translingual: Cotinus

Further reading

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