κίστη
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (“woven container”), thought to be borrowed from a European substrate. Cognate with Middle Irish cess (“basket, causeway of wickerwork, beehive”), Old Welsh cest (“basket”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kís.tɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkis.te̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcis.ti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcis.ti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcis.ti/
Noun[edit]
κῐ́στη • (kístē) f (genitive κῐ́στης); first declension
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῐ́στη hē kístē |
τὼ κῐ́στᾱ tṑ kístā |
αἱ κῐ́σται hai kístai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῐ́στης tês kístēs |
τοῖν κῐ́σταιν toîn kístain |
τῶν κῐστῶν tôn kistôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῐ́στῃ têi kístēi |
τοῖν κῐ́σταιν toîn kístain |
ταῖς κῐ́σταις taîs kístais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῐ́στην tḕn kístēn |
τὼ κῐ́στᾱ tṑ kístā |
τᾱ̀ς κῐ́στᾱς tā̀s kístās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῐ́στη kístē |
κῐ́στᾱ kístā |
κῐ́σται kístai | ||||||||||
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Descendants[edit]
- → Latin: cista
References[edit]
- “κίστη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίστη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κίστη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κίστη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κίστη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κίστη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 705
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