χοῖνιξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰôi̯.niks/ → /ˈçy.niks/ → /ˈçi.niks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰôi̯.niks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰy.niks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈçy.niks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈçy.niks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈçi.niks/

Noun

χοῖνιξ • (khoînix) f (genitive χοίνικος); third declension

1. A dry measure for corn, a choenix
2. A kind of stocks for fastening the legs

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χοῖνῐξ; τῆς χοίνῐκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χοῖνῐξ hē khoînix	τὼ χοίνῐκε tṑ khoínike	αἱ χοίνῐκες hai khoínikes
Genitive	τῆς χοίνῐκος tês khoínikos	τοῖν χοινῐ́κοιν toîn khoiníkoin	τῶν χοινῐ́κων tôn khoiníkōn
Dative	τῇ χοίνῐκῐ têi khoíniki	τοῖν χοινῐ́κοιν toîn khoiníkoin	ταῖς χοίνῐξῐ / χοίνῐξῐν taîs khoínixi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χοίνῐκᾰ tḕn khoínika	τὼ χοίνῐκε tṑ khoínike	τᾱ̀ς χοίνῐκᾰς tā̀s khoínikas
Vocative	χοῖνῐξ khoînix	χοίνῐκε khoínike	χοίνῐκες khoínikes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὁμοχοῖνιξ (homokhoînix)
• χοινίκη (khoiníkē)
• χοινικιαῖος (khoinikiaîos)
• χοινίκιον (khoiníkion)
• χοινικίς (khoinikís)
• χοινικομέτρης (khoinikométrēs)

 

Descendants

• → English: choenix

Further reading

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