κώρυκος

See also: Κώρυκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Cognate to Latin corium (“leather”) and Proto-Celtic *korukos (“leather boat”), and ultimately a vriddhied derivative of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Nikolaev dismisses Beekes' claim that the word is from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.ry.kos/ → /ˈko.ry.kos/ → /ˈko.ri.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.ry.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ri.kos/

Noun

κώρῠκος • (kṓrŭkos) m (genitive κωρύκου); second declension

1. leathern sack or wallet for provisions

   Synonym: ᾰ̓́δορος (ắdoros)

2. punchbag in the gymnasium
3. leathern quiver
4. (anatomy) scrotum

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κώρῠκος; τοῦ κωρῠ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κώρῠκος ho kṓrŭkos	τὼ κωρῠ́κω tṑ kōrŭ́kō	οἱ κώρῠκοι hoi kṓrŭkoi
Genitive	τοῦ κωρῠ́κου toû kōrŭ́kou	τοῖν κωρῠ́κοιν toîn kōrŭ́koin	τῶν κωρῠ́κων tôn kōrŭ́kōn
Dative	τῷ κωρῠ́κῳ tôi kōrŭ́kōi	τοῖν κωρῠ́κοιν toîn kōrŭ́koin	τοῖς κωρῠ́κοις toîs kōrŭ́kois
Accusative	τὸν κώρῠκον tòn kṓrŭkon	τὼ κωρῠ́κω tṑ kōrŭ́kō	τοὺς κωρῠ́κους toùs kōrŭ́kous
Vocative	κώρῠκε kṓrŭke	κωρῠ́κω kōrŭ́kō	κώρῠκοι kṓrŭkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κωρυκίδιον (kōrukídion)
• κωρύκιον (kōrúkion)
• κωρυκίς (kōrukís)
• κωρυκοβολία (kōrukobolía)
• κωρυκομαχία (kōrukomakhía)
• κωρυκώδης (kōrukṓdēs)

Descendants

• → Latin: cōrycus

Further reading

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