κνῆκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks. Cognate with English honey, Albanian qengjë (“beehive”) and Latin canicae (“bran”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /knɛ̂ː.kos/ → /ˈkni.kos/ → /ˈkni.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /knɛ̂ː.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkne̝.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkni.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkni.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkni.kos/

Noun

κνῆκος • (knêkos) f (genitive κνῆκου); second declension

1. safflower (Carthamus tinctorius)

Declension

Second declension of ἡ κνῆκος; τῆς κνήκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κνῆκος hē knêkos	τὼ κνήκω tṑ knḗkō	αἱ κνῆκοι hai knêkoi
Genitive	τῆς κνήκου tês knḗkou	τοῖν κνήκοιν toîn knḗkoin	τῶν κνήκων tôn knḗkōn
Dative	τῇ κνήκῳ têi knḗkōi	τοῖν κνήκοιν toîn knḗkoin	ταῖς κνήκοις taîs knḗkois
Accusative	τὴν κνῆκον tḕn knêkon	τὼ κνήκω tṑ knḗkō	τᾱ̀ς κνήκους tā̀s knḗkous
Vocative	κνῆκε knêke	κνήκω knḗkō	κνῆκοι knêkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κνήκινος (knḗkinos)
• κνήκιον (knḗkion)
• κνηκός (knēkós)
• κνηκώδης (knēkṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: cnēcos

Further reading

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