ἴκτις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἰκτίς (iktís)

Etymology

Compare Old Armenian աքիս (akʻis). Beekes gives no etymology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ík.tis/ → /ˈik.tis/ → /ˈik.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ík.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tis/

Noun

ἴκτῐς • (íktĭs) f (genitive ἴκτῐδος); third declension

1. beech marten (Martes foina)

   Synonym: ἶδυξ (îdux)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῐ̓́κτῐς; τῆς ῐ̓́κτῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῐ̓́κτῐς hē ĭ́ktĭs	τὼ ῐ̓́κτῐδε tṑ ĭ́ktĭde	αἱ ῐ̓́κτῐδες hai ĭ́ktĭdes
Genitive	τῆς ῐ̓́κτῐδος tês ĭ́ktĭdos	τοῖν ῐ̓κτῐ́δοιν toîn ĭktĭ́doin	τῶν ῐ̓κτῐ́δων tôn ĭktĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ῐ̓́κτῐδῐ têi ĭ́ktĭdĭ	τοῖν ῐ̓κτῐ́δοιν toîn ĭktĭ́doin	ταῖς ῐ̓́κτῐσῐ / ῐ̓́κτῐσῐν taîs ĭ́ktĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῐ̓́κτῐδᾰ tḕn ĭ́ktĭdă	τὼ ῐ̓́κτῐδε tṑ ĭ́ktĭde	τᾱ̀ς ῐ̓́κτῐδᾰς tā̀s ĭ́ktĭdăs
Vocative	ῐ̓́κτῐς ĭ́ktĭs	ῐ̓́κτῐδε ĭ́ktĭde	ῐ̓́κτῐδες ĭ́ktĭdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• κτίδεος (ktídeos)

Further reading

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