κῖκυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Meier-Brügger assumes a reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, be strong”), like in κύω (kúō, “to conceive”). This is accepted by de Lamberterie, but the long ῑ cannot be explained this way. Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek instead.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kîː.kys/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈki.kys/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.cys/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.cys/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.cis/

Noun

κῖκῠς • (kîkus) f (genitive κῑ́κῠος); third declension

(poetic) strength, vigour, force

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κῖκῠς; τῆς κῑ́κῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῖκῠς hē kîkus	τὼ κῑ́κῠε tṑ kī́kue	αἱ κῑ́κῠες hai kī́kues
Genitive	τῆς κῑ́κῠος tês kī́kuos	τοῖν κῑκῠ́οιν toîn kīkúoin	τῶν κῑκῠ́ων tôn kīkúōn
Dative	τῇ κῑ́κῠῐ̈ / κῑ́κυι têi kī́kuï / kī́kui	τοῖν κῑκῠ́οιν toîn kīkúoin	ταῖς κῑ́κῠσῐ / κῑ́κῠσῐν taîs kī́kusi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κῖκῠν tḕn kîkun	τὼ κῑ́κῠε tṑ kī́kue	τᾱ̀ς κῑ́κῡς / κῑ́κῠᾰς tā̀s kī́kūs / kī́kuas
Vocative	κῖκῠ kîku	κῑ́κῠε kī́kue	κῑ́κῠες kī́kues
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἄκικυς (ákikus)
κικύω (kikúō)

“κῖκυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κῖκυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“κῖκυς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
κῖκυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
κῖκυς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
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