κύτινος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Because of the meaning "calyx", the word has been connected with κύτος (kútos, “hollow, vessel”). However, Furnée compares κύταρον (kútaron, “spoon”), κύδαρος (kúdaros, “small ship”), κύτταρος (kúttaros, “cell of a honeycomb”), κυττοί (kuttoí, “receptacles”). This points to a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.ti.nos/ → /ˈcy.ti.nos/ → /ˈci.ti.nos/

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

Noun

κῠ́τῐνος • (kŭ́tĭnos) m (genitive κῠτῐ́νου); second declension

1. flower of the pomegranate

   Synonym: βαλαύστιον (balaústion)

2. calyx of the pomegranate
3. hypocist (Cytinus hypocistis)

   Synonym: ὑποκιστίς (hupokistís)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠ́τῐνος; τοῦ κῠτῐ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠ́τῐνος ho kŭ́tĭnos	τὼ κῠτῐ́νω tṑ kŭtĭ́nō	οἱ κῠ́τῐνοι hoi kŭ́tĭnoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠτῐ́νου toû kŭtĭ́nou	τοῖν κῠτῐ́νοιν toîn kŭtĭ́noin	τῶν κῠτῐ́νων tôn kŭtĭ́nōn
Dative	τῷ κῠτῐ́νῳ tôi kŭtĭ́nōi	τοῖν κῠτῐ́νοιν toîn kŭtĭ́noin	τοῖς κῠτῐ́νοις toîs kŭtĭ́nois
Accusative	τὸν κῠ́τῐνον tòn kŭ́tĭnon	τὼ κῠτῐ́νω tṑ kŭtĭ́nō	τοὺς κῠτῐ́νους toùs kŭtĭ́nous
Vocative	κῠ́τῐνε kŭ́tĭne	κῠτῐ́νω kŭtĭ́nō	κῠ́τῐνοι kŭ́tĭnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κυτινώδης (kutinṓdēs)

Descendants

• → Latin: cytinus
• → Translingual: Cytinus

Further reading

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