σίκυος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σῐκῠός (sikuós), σῐ́κῠς (síkus)

Etymology

From the same substrate/Pre-Greek root of σῐκῠ́α (sikúa, “bottle-gourd”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sí.ky.os/ → /ˈsi.cy.os/ → /ˈsi.ci.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sí.ky.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ky.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.cy.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.cy.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ci.os/

Noun

σῐ́κῠος • (síkuos) m (genitive σῐκῠ́ου); second declension

1. cucumber (Cucumis sativus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σῐ́κῠος; τοῦ σῐκῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῐ́κῠος ho síkuos	τὼ σῐκῠ́ω tṑ sikúō	οἱ σῐ́κῠοι hoi síkuoi
Genitive	τοῦ σῐκῠ́ου toû sikúou	τοῖν σῐκῠ́οιν toîn sikúoin	τῶν σῐκῠ́ων tôn sikúōn
Dative	τῷ σῐκῠ́ῳ tôi sikúōi	τοῖν σῐκῠ́οιν toîn sikúoin	τοῖς σῐκῠ́οις toîs sikúois
Accusative	τὸν σῐ́κῠον tòn síkuon	τὼ σῐκῠ́ω tṑ sikúō	τοὺς σῐκῠ́ους toùs sikúous
Vocative	σῐ́κῠε síkue	σῐκῠ́ω sikúō	σῐ́κῠοι síkuoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σῐκῠ́δῐον (sikúdion)
• σῐκῠηδόν (sikuēdón)
• σῐκῠήλᾰτον (sikuḗlaton)
• σῐκῠοπέπων (sikuopépōn)
• σῐκῠώδης (sikuṓdēs)
• σῐκῠών (sikuṓn)
• σῐκῠώνη (sikuṓnē)
• σῐκῠωνῐ́ᾱ (sikuōníā)

 

Descendants

• → Translingual: Sicyos

Further reading

• “σίκυος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σίκυος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σίκυος 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