κώνωψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes dismisses a derivation from κῶνος (kônos, “cone”) and ὤψ (ṓps, “face”) and prefers to derive it from Pre-Greek. Compare, however, Egyptian ḫnws, ḫnms (“a kind of stinging insect”), which has also been suggested as a source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.nɔːps/ → /ˈko.nops/ → /ˈko.nops/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.nɔːps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.nops/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.nops/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.nops/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.nops/

Noun

κώνωψ • (kṓnōps) m (genitive κώνωπος); third declension

1. gnat, mosquito

   Synonym: ἐμπίς (empís)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κώνωψ; τοῦ κώνωπος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κώνωψ ho kṓnōps	τὼ κώνωπε tṑ kṓnōpe	οἱ κώνωπες hoi kṓnōpes
Genitive	τοῦ κώνωπος toû kṓnōpos	τοῖν κωνώποιν toîn kōnṓpoin	τῶν κωνώπων tôn kōnṓpōn
Dative	τῷ κώνωπῐ tôi kṓnōpi	τοῖν κωνώποιν toîn kōnṓpoin	τοῖς κώνωψῐ / κώνωψῐν toîs kṓnōpsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κώνωπᾰ tòn kṓnōpa	τὼ κώνωπε tṑ kṓnōpe	τοὺς κώνωπᾰς toùs kṓnōpas
Vocative	κώνωψ kṓnōps	κώνωπε kṓnōpe	κώνωπες kṓnōpes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon)
• κωνωποειδής (kōnōpoeidḗs)
• κωνωποθήρας (kōnōpothḗras)
• κωνωποσφράντης (kōnōposphrántēs)

 

Further reading

• “κώνωψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κώνωψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κώνωψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κώνωψ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 815