κηθίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, maybe of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛː.tʰís/ → /ciˈθis/ → /ciˈθis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.tʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝ˈtʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈθis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈθis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈθis/

Noun

κηθίς • (kēthís) f (genitive κηθίδος); third declension

1. dicebox

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κηθῐ́ς; τῆς κηθῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κηθῐ́ς hē kēthís	τὼ κηθῐ́δε tṑ kēthíde	αἱ κηθῐ́δες hai kēthídes
Genitive	τῆς κηθῐ́δος tês kēthídos	τοῖν κηθῐ́δοιν toîn kēthídoin	τῶν κηθῐ́δων tôn kēthídōn
Dative	τῇ κηθῐ́δῐ têi kēthídi	τοῖν κηθῐ́δοιν toîn kēthídoin	ταῖς κηθῐ́σῐ / κηθῐ́σῐν taîs kēthísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κηθῐ́δᾰ tḕn kēthída	τὼ κηθῐ́δε tṑ kēthíde	τᾱ̀ς κηθῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kēthídas
Vocative	κηθῐ́ς kēthís	κηθῐ́δε kēthíde	κηθῐ́δες kēthídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• κηθάριον (kēthárion)
• κηθίδιον (kēthídion)
• κήθιον (kḗthion)

 

Further reading

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