ὄρκυς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀρκύαλος (orkúalos), ὄρκῡνος (órkūnos)

Etymology

Unexplained loanword. Probably Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix and meaning.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ór.kyːs/ → /ˈor.cys/ → /ˈor.cis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ór.kyːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈor.kys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.cys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.cys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.cis/

Noun

ὄρκῡς • (órkūs) f (genitive ὄρκῡνος); third declension

1. large kind of tunny

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ὄρκῡς; τοῦ ὄρκῡνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄρκῡς ho órkūs	τὼ ὄρκῡνε tṑ órkūne	οἱ ὄρκῡνες hoi órkūnes
Genitive	τοῦ ὄρκῡνος toû órkūnos	τοῖν ὀρκῡ́νοιν toîn orkū́noin	τῶν ὀρκῡ́νων tôn orkū́nōn
Dative	τῷ ὄρκῡνῐ tôi órkūnĭ	τοῖν ὀρκῡ́νοιν toîn orkū́noin	τοῖς ὄρκῡσῐ / ὄρκῡσῐν toîs órkūsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν ὄρκῡνᾰ tòn órkūnă	τὼ ὄρκῡνε tṑ órkūne	τοὺς ὄρκῡνᾰς toùs órkūnăs
Vocative	ὄρκῡν órkūn	ὄρκῡνε órkūne	ὄρκῡνες órkūnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀρκῡνεῖον (orkūneîon)

Further reading

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