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 • (kŭ́tĭsos) 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 kŭ́tĭsos	τὼ κῠτῐ́σω tṑ kŭtĭ́sō	οἱ, αἱ κῠ́τῐσοι hoi, hai kŭ́tĭsoi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς κῠτῐ́σου toû, tês kŭtĭ́sou	τοῖν κῠτῐ́σοιν toîn kŭtĭ́soin	τῶν κῠτῐ́σων tôn kŭtĭ́sōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ κῠτῐ́σῳ tôi, têi kŭtĭ́sōi	τοῖν κῠτῐ́σοιν toîn kŭtĭ́soin	τοῖς, ταῖς κῠτῐ́σοις toîs, taîs kŭtĭ́sois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν κῠ́τῐσον tòn, tḕn kŭ́tĭson	τὼ κῠτῐ́σω tṑ kŭtĭ́sō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κῠτῐ́σους toùs, tā̀s kŭtĭ́sous
Vocative	κῠ́τῐσε kŭ́tĭse	κῠτῐ́σω kŭtĭ́sō	κῠ́τῐσοι kŭ́tĭsoi
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