κοῦκι
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Foreign word, perhaps of Egyptian origin, or related to κόϊξ (kóïx, “doum palm”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kûː.ki/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈku.ki/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈku.ci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈku.ci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈku.ci/
Noun[edit]
κοῦκι • (koûki) n (indeclinable)
- doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica)
- Synonym: κόϊξ (kóïx)
Derived terms[edit]
- κούκινος (koúkinos)
- κουκιοφόρος (koukiophóros)
Descendants[edit]
- → Latin: cūci
Further reading[edit]
- “κοῦκι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κοῦκι 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