κόκκυξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Likely onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kók.kyːks/ → /ˈko.cyks/ → /ˈko.ciks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kók.kyːks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.kyks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.cyks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.cyks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ciks/

Noun

κόκκῡξ • (kókkūx) m (genitive κόκκῡγος); third declension

1. cuckoo
2. tailbone, coccyx

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κόκκῡξ; τοῦ κόκκῡγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόκκῡξ ho kókkūx	τὼ κόκκῡγε tṑ kókkūge	οἱ κόκκῡγες hoi kókkūges
Genitive	τοῦ κόκκῡγος toû kókkūgos	τοῖν κοκκῡ́γοιν toîn kokkū́goin	τῶν κοκκῡ́γων tôn kokkū́gōn
Dative	τῷ κόκκῡγῐ tôi kókkūgi	τοῖν κοκκῡ́γοιν toîn kokkū́goin	τοῖς κόκκῡξῐ / κόκκῡξῐν toîs kókkūxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κόκκῡγᾰ tòn kókkūga	τὼ κόκκῡγε tṑ kókkūge	τοὺς κόκκῡγᾰς toùs kókkūgas
Vocative	κόκκῡξ kókkūx	κόκκῡγε kókkūge	κόκκῡγες kókkūges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “κόκκυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόκκυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόκκυξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cuckoo idem, page 188.
• “coccyx”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.