κύμινδις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κύβινδις (kúbindis)

Etymology

Clearly a loanword, because of the suffix "-νδ-"; perhaps of Anatolian or Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.min.dis/ → /ˈcy.min.dis/ → /ˈci.min.dis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.min.dis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.min.dis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.min.dis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.min.dis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.min.dis/

Noun

κύ̆μινδῐς • (kú̆mindĭs) m or f (genitive κῠμίνδῐδος); third declension

1. name of an unknown bird

Declension

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ κῠ́μινδῐς; τοῦ, τῆς κῠμίνδῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ κῠ́μινδῐς ho, hē kŭ́mindĭs	τὼ κῠμίνδῐδε tṑ kŭmíndĭde	οἱ, αἱ κῠμίνδῐδες hoi, hai kŭmíndĭdes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς κῠμίνδῐδος toû, tês kŭmíndĭdos	τοῖν κῠμινδῐ́δοιν toîn kŭmindĭ́doin	τῶν κῠμινδῐ́δων tôn kŭmindĭ́dōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ κῠμίνδῐδῐ tôi, têi kŭmíndĭdĭ	τοῖν κῠμινδῐ́δοιν toîn kŭmindĭ́doin	τοῖς, ταῖς κῠμίνδῐσῐ / κῠμίνδῐσῐν toîs, taîs kŭmíndĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν κῠμίνδῐδᾰ tòn, tḕn kŭmíndĭdă	τὼ κῠμίνδῐδε tṑ kŭmíndĭde	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κῠμίνδῐδᾰς toùs, tā̀s kŭmíndĭdăs
Vocative	κῠ́μινδῐς kŭ́mindĭs	κῠμίνδῐδε kŭmíndĭde	κῠμίνδῐδες kŭmíndĭdes
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.

Descendants

• → Latin: cybindis
• → Translingual: Cymindis

References

• “κύμινδις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κύμινδις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κύμινδις 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