κιρσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κριξός (krixós), κρισσός (krissós)

Etymology

According to Beekes, the variation "σ/ξ" shows that the word is from .

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kir.sós/ → /cirˈsos/ → /cirˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kir.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kirˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cirˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cirˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /cirˈsos/

Noun

κιρσός • (kirsós) m (genitive κιρσοῦ); second declension

1. (pathology) varicocele, enlargement of a vein

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κιρσός; τοῦ κιρσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κιρσός ho kirsós	τὼ κιρσώ tṑ kirsṓ	οἱ κιρσοί hoi kirsoí
Genitive	τοῦ κιρσοῦ toû kirsoû	τοῖν κιρσοῖν toîn kirsoîn	τῶν κιρσῶν tôn kirsôn
Dative	τῷ κιρσῷ tôi kirsôi	τοῖν κιρσοῖν toîn kirsoîn	τοῖς κιρσοῖς toîs kirsoîs
Accusative	τὸν κιρσόν tòn kirsón	τὼ κιρσώ tṑ kirsṓ	τοὺς κιρσούς toùs kirsoús
Vocative	κιρσέ kirsé	κιρσώ kirsṓ	κιρσοί kirsoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κίρσιον (kírsion)
• κιρσοειδής (kirsoeidḗs)
• κιρσοκήλη (kirsokḗlē)
• κιρσοτομέω (kirsotoméō)
• κιρσοτομία (kirsotomía)
• κιρσουλκέω (kirsoulkéō)
• κιρσουλκία (kirsoulkía)
• κιρσουλκός (kirsoulkós)
• κιρσόω (kirsóō)
• κιρσώδης (kirsṓdēs)
• κίρσωσις (kírsōsis)

 

Further reading

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

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κιρσός (kirsós), from κρίκος (kríkos) or κίρκος (kírkos)

Noun

κιρσός • (kirsós) m

1. varicose vein, varicocele

Declension

Declension of κιρσός

	singular	plural
nominative	κιρσός •	κιρσοί •
genitive	κιρσού •	κιρσών •
accusative	κιρσό •	κιρσούς •
vocative	κιρσέ •	κιρσοί •

Further reading

• Κιρσοί on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el