κιττώ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Hebrew קִדָּה (qiddâ, “cassia”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kit.tɔ̌ː/ → /citˈto/ → /ciˈto/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kit.tɔ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kitˈto/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /citˈto/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /citˈto/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈto/

Noun

κῐττώ • (kittṓ) f (genitive κῐττοῦς); third declension

1. Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κῐττώ; τῆς κῐττοῦς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ κῐττώ hē kittṓ
Genitive	τῆς κῐττοῦς tês kittoûs
Dative	τῇ κῐττοῖ têi kittoî
Accusative	τὴν κῐττώ tḕn kittṓ
Vocative	κῐττοῖ kittoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κιττώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κιττώ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 36