κίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. Sanskrit कीट (kīṭa, “worm, insect”) is unrelated. According to Beekes, probably from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kǐːs/ → /cis/ → /cis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kǐːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /cis/

Noun

κῑ́ς • (kī́s) m (genitive κῑός); third declension

1. weevil (beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea)

Usage notes

For the declension, compare λῑ́ς (lī́s, “lion”).

Declension

Irregular declension of ὁ κῑ́ς; τοῦ κῑός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῑ́ς ho kī́s	—
Genitive	τοῦ κῑός toû kīós	—
Dative	τῷ κῖν tôi kîn	—
Accusative	τὸν κῑ́ς tòn kī́s	τοὺς κῑ́ᾰς toùs kī́as
Vocative	—	—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Cis

Further reading

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