κερκίς
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unclear; possibly either from Pre-Greek or a diminutive form of κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ker.kís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kerˈkis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cerˈcis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cerˈcis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /cerˈcis/
Noun
[edit]κερκῐ́ς • (kerkís) f (genitive κερκῐ́δος); third declension
- weaver's shuttle
- any taper rod, of wood or ivory
- measuring rod, gnomon
- rod for stirring liquids
- iron dowel
- (architecture) wedge shaped division of the seats in the theatre
- (anatomy) tibia
- aspen (Populus tremula)
- Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum)
- Synonym: σημύδα (sēmúda)
- white bryony
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κερκῐ́ς hē kerkís |
τὼ κερκῐ́δε tṑ kerkíde |
αἱ κερκῐ́δες hai kerkídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κερκῐ́δος tês kerkídos |
τοῖν κερκῐ́δοιν toîn kerkídoin |
τῶν κερκῐ́δων tôn kerkídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κερκῐ́δῐ têi kerkídi |
τοῖν κερκῐ́δοιν toîn kerkídoin |
ταῖς κερκῐ́σῐ / κερκῐ́σῐν taîs kerkísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κερκῐ́δᾰ tḕn kerkída |
τὼ κερκῐ́δε tṑ kerkíde |
τᾱ̀ς κερκῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kerkídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κερκῐ́ς kerkís |
κερκῐ́δε kerkíde |
κερκῐ́δες kerkídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- κερκίδιον (kerkídion)
- κερκιδιαῖον (kerkidiaîon)
- κερκίζω (kerkízō)
- κέρκισις (kérkisis)
- κέρκιστρα (kérkistra)
- παρακερκίς (parakerkís)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “κερκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κερκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κερκίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- shuttle idem, page 772.
- 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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