κανθός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain, sometimes suggested to be related to Proto-Slavic *kǫtъ (“corner”), Proto-Celtic *cantos (“corner, rim (of a chariot wheel)”) through a Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ndʰ, but Beekes doesn't find this convincing, as -νθ- is often indicative of Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "pregrc" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF..
The primary sense is "corner of the eye", recorded in Aristotle; in the 6th century (John Philoponus) also glossed as "eyelids"; the secondary meaning "rim (of a wheel)" only arises in the Roman period ( Edict of Diocletian AD 301), influenced by Latin (originally Gaulish) cantus. The senses "chimney" and "pot, pan" are only known from Hesychius.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kan.tʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kanˈtʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kanˈθos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kanˈθos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kanˈθos/
Noun
κανθός • (kanthós) m (genitive κανθοῦ); second declension
- (anatomy) corner of the eye
- (anatomy) eyelids
- (poetic) eye
- rim or tire of a wheel
- (lexicography) chimney
- (lexicography) pot, pan
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κανθός ho kanthós |
τὼ κανθώ tṑ kanthṓ |
οἱ κανθοί hoi kanthoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κανθοῦ toû kanthoû |
τοῖν κανθοῖν toîn kanthoîn |
τῶν κανθῶν tôn kanthôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κανθῷ tôi kanthôi |
τοῖν κανθοῖν toîn kanthoîn |
τοῖς κανθοῖς toîs kanthoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κανθόν tòn kanthón |
τὼ κανθώ tṑ kanthṓ |
τοὺς κανθούς toùs kanthoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | κανθέ kanthé |
κανθώ kanthṓ |
κανθοί kanthoí | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κανθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κανθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κανθός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 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
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