κήρινθος

See also: Κήρινθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the word seems Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix -ινθος (-inthos). In any case, compare κηρός (kērós, “wax; honeycomb”), also believed to be a substrate word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̌ː.rin.tʰos/ → /ˈci.rin.θos/ → /ˈci.rin.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛ̌ː.rin.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈke̝.rin.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.rin.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.rin.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.rin.θos/

Noun

κήρῐνθος • (kḗrinthos) m (genitive κηρῐ́νθος); second declension

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   Synonyms: ἐρῐθᾰ́κη (erithákē), σᾰνδᾰρᾰ́κη (sandarákē)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κήρῐνθος; τοῦ κηρῐ́νθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κήρῐνθος ho kḗrinthos	τὼ κηρῐ́νθω tṑ kērínthō	οἱ κήρῐνθοι hoi kḗrinthoi
Genitive	τοῦ κηρῐ́νθου toû kērínthou	τοῖν κηρῐ́νθοιν toîn kērínthoin	τῶν κηρῐ́νθων tôn kērínthōn
Dative	τῷ κηρῐ́νθῳ tôi kērínthōi	τοῖν κηρῐ́νθοιν toîn kērínthoin	τοῖς κηρῐ́νθοις toîs kērínthois
Accusative	τὸν κήρῐνθον tòn kḗrinthon	τὼ κηρῐ́νθω tṑ kērínthō	τοὺς κηρῐ́νθους toùs kērínthous
Vocative	κήρῐνθε kḗrinthe	κηρῐ́νθω kērínthō	κήρῐνθοι kḗrinthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cērinthus

Further reading

• “κήρινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κήρινθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κηρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 689–690