κοίτη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie down”), the same root of κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie in a place”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kǒi̯.tɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.te̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.ti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.ti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.ti/
Noun
κοίτη • (koítē) f (genitive κοίτης); first declension
- bed, resting place
- (geography) riverbed
- lair of a wild beast
- pen, fold for cattle
- act of going to bed; bedtime
- lodging, entertainment
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κοίτη hē koítē |
τὼ κοίτᾱ tṑ koítā |
αἱ κοῖται hai koîtai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κοίτης tês koítēs |
τοῖν κοίταιν toîn koítain |
τῶν κοιτῶν tôn koitôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κοίτῃ têi koítēi |
τοῖν κοίταιν toîn koítain |
ταῖς κοίταις taîs koítais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κοίτην tḕn koítēn |
τὼ κοίτᾱ tṑ koítā |
τᾱ̀ς κοίτᾱς tā̀s koítās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κοίτη koítē |
κοίτᾱ koítā |
κοῖται koîtai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: κοίτη (koíti)
References
- “κοίτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κοίτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κοίτη 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
Greek
Pronunciation
Noun
κοίτη • (koíti) f (plural κοίτες)
- river bed
- (archaic, very rare, law) bed (used only in legal expression:)[1]
- χωρισμός από τραπέζης και κοίτης
- chorismós apó trapézis kai koítis
- lit.: "separation of table and bed". Legal separation.
Declension
Declension of κοίτη
Synonyms
References
- ^ κοίτη, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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