κίκιννος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée is probably right in assuming a prenalized form *κίγκιννος (*kínkinnos) as a source for Latin cincinnus. A origin must be assumed.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kí.kin.nos/ → /ˈci.cin.nos/ → /ˈci.ci.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kí.kin.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈki.kin.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.cin.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.cin.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ci.nos/

Noun

κῐ́κῐννος • (kíkinnos) m (genitive κῐκῐ́ννου); second declension

1. lock of curly hair.
2. ringlet.

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κῐ́κῐννος; τοῦ κῐκῐ́ννου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῐ́κῐννος ho kíkinnos	τὼ κῐκῐ́ννω tṑ kikínnō	οἱ κῐ́κῐννοι hoi kíkinnoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῐκῐ́ννου toû kikínnou	τοῖν κῐκῐ́ννοιν toîn kikínnoin	τῶν κῐκῐ́ννων tôn kikínnōn
Dative	τῷ κῐκῐ́ννῳ tôi kikínnōi	τοῖν κῐκῐ́ννοιν toîn kikínnoin	τοῖς κῐκῐ́ννοις toîs kikínnois
Accusative	τὸν κῐ́κῐννον tòn kíkinnon	τὼ κῐκῐ́ννω tṑ kikínnō	τοὺς κῐκῐ́ννους toùs kikínnous
Vocative	κῐ́κῐννε kíkinne	κῐκῐ́ννω kikínnō	κῐ́κῐννοι kíkinnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cincinnus
  • Italian: cincinno

Further reading

• “κίκιννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίκιννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • curl idem, page 190.
  • ringlet idem, page 716.
• 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