κόρυζα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally compared to Old English hrot (“mucus”) but Beekes doesn't dismiss a origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.ryːz.da/ → /ˈko.ry.za/ → /ˈko.ri.za/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.ryːz.da/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.za/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.za/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.za/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ri.za/

Noun

κόρῡζᾰ • (kórūza) f (genitive κορῡ́ζης); first declension

1. rheum, mucous discharge from the nose
2. drivelling, stupidity

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κόρῡζᾰ; τῆς κορῡ́ζης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κόρῡζᾰ hē kórūza	τὼ κορῡ́ζᾱ tṑ korū́zā	αἱ κόρῡζαι hai kórūzai
Genitive	τῆς κορῡ́ζης tês korū́zēs	τοῖν κορῡ́ζαιν toîn korū́zain	τῶν κορῡζῶν tôn korūzôn
Dative	τῇ κορῡ́ζῃ têi korū́zēi	τοῖν κορῡ́ζαιν toîn korū́zain	ταῖς κορῡ́ζαις taîs korū́zais
Accusative	τὴν κόρῡζᾰν tḕn kórūzan	τὼ κορῡ́ζᾱ tṑ korū́zā	τᾱ̀ς κορῡ́ζᾱς tā̀s korū́zās
Vocative	κόρῡζᾰ kórūza	κορῡ́ζᾱ korū́zā	κόρῡζαι kórūzai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κορυζᾶς (koruzâs)
• κορυζάω (koruzáō)
• κορυζιᾷ (koruziâi)
• κορυζώδης (koruzṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: corȳza

References

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