κόγχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱon-. Cognates include Latin congius and Sanskrit शङ्ख (śaṅkhá).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kóŋ.kʰos/ → /ˈkoŋ.xos/ → /ˈkoŋ.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kóŋ.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkoŋ.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkoŋ.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkoŋ.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkoŋ.xos/

Noun

κόγχος • (kónkhos) m (genitive κόγχου); second declension

1. mussel, cockle
2. small measure (especially of liquid)
3. mussel shaped container for liquid
4. The upper part of the skull
5. lentil soup

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόγχος; τοῦ κόγχου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόγχος ho kónkhos	τὼ κόγχω tṑ kónkhō	οἱ κόγχοι hoi kónkhoi
Genitive	τοῦ κόγχου toû kónkhou	τοῖν κόγχοιν toîn kónkhoin	τῶν κόγχων tôn kónkhōn
Dative	τῷ κόγχῳ tôi kónkhōi	τοῖν κόγχοιν toîn kónkhoin	τοῖς κόγχοις toîs kónkhois
Accusative	τὸν κόγχον tòn kónkhon	τὼ κόγχω tṑ kónkhō	τοὺς κόγχους toùs kónkhous
Vocative	κόγχε kónkhe	κόγχω kónkhō	κόγχοι kónkhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• κόγχη (kónkhē)

Further reading

• “κόγχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόγχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόγχος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cockle idem, page 141.
  • muscle idem, page 547.
  • shell idem, page 764.