κύτισος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Pre-Greek. Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀳𐀰 (ku-te-so).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

κῠ́τῐσος • (kútisos) m or f (genitive κῠτῐ́σου); second declension

1. tree medick, moon trefoil (Medicago arborea)

   Synonym: τηλίνη (tēlínē)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ κῠ́τῐσος; τοῦ, τῆς κῠτῐ́σου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ κῠ́τῐσος ho, hē kútisos	τὼ κῠτῐ́σω tṑ kutísō	οἱ, αἱ κῠ́τῐσοι hoi, hai kútisoi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς κῠτῐ́σου toû, tês kutísou	τοῖν κῠτῐ́σοιν toîn kutísoin	τῶν κῠτῐ́σων tôn kutísōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ κῠτῐ́σῳ tôi, têi kutísōi	τοῖν κῠτῐ́σοιν toîn kutísoin	τοῖς, ταῖς κῠτῐ́σοις toîs, taîs kutísois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν κῠ́τῐσον tòn, tḕn kútison	τὼ κῠτῐ́σω tṑ kutísō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κῠτῐ́σους toùs, tā̀s kutísous
Vocative	κῠ́τῐσε kútise	κῠτῐ́σω kutísō	κῠ́τῐσοι kútisoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cytisus
• → Translingual: Cytisus

Further reading

• “κύτισος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κύτισος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κύτισος 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