κόστος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κόστον (kóston)

Etymology

From Sanskrit कुष्ठ (kuṣṭha).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kós.tos/ → /ˈkos.tos/ → /ˈkos.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kós.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.tos/

Noun

κόστος • (kóstos) m (genitive κόστου); second declension

1. costus (Saussurea costus), used as a spice

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόστος; τοῦ κόστου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόστος ho kóstos	τὼ κόστω tṑ kóstō	οἱ κόστοι hoi kóstoi
Genitive	τοῦ κόστου toû kóstou	τοῖν κόστοιν toîn kóstoin	τῶν κόστων tôn kóstōn
Dative	τῷ κόστῳ tôi kóstōi	τοῖν κόστοιν toîn kóstoin	τοῖς κόστοις toîs kóstois
Accusative	τὸν κόστον tòn kóston	τὼ κόστω tṑ kóstō	τοὺς κόστους toùs kóstous
Vocative	κόστε kóste	κόστω kóstō	κόστοι kóstoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κοστόϊνος (kostóïnos)

Descendants

• → Latin: costus
  • → English: costus
  • → Translingual: Costus

Further reading

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

Greek

Etymology

From Italian costo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.stos/

Noun

κόστος • (kóstos) n (plural κόστη)

1. (finance) cost
2. money or effort expended in achieving something
3. (finance) cost price
4. rate
5. consequences

Declension

Declension of κόστος

	singular	plural
nominative	κόστος •	κόστη •
genitive	κόστους •	κοστών •
accusative	κόστος •	κόστη •
vocative	κόστος •	κόστη •

See also

• τιμή f (timí, “various meanings”)
• δαπάνη f (dapáni, “expenditure, payment”)
• τίμημα n (tímima, “price”)
• αντίτιμο n (antítimo, “price”)