κόρχορος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κόρκορος (kórkoros)

Etymology

According to Beekes, a reduplicated Pre-Greek formation.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kór.kʰo.ros/ → /ˈkor.xo.ros/ → /ˈkor.xo.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kór.kʰo.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.kʰo.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.xo.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.xo.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.xo.ros/

Noun

κόρχορος • (kórkhoros) m (genitive κορχόρου); second declension

1. blue pimpernel (Lysimachia monelli)
2. jute (Corchorus olitorius)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόρχορος; τοῦ κορχόρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόρχορος ho kórkhoros	τὼ κορχόρω tṑ korkhórō	οἱ κόρχοροι hoi kórkhoroi
Genitive	τοῦ κορχόρου toû korkhórou	τοῖν κορχόροιν toîn korkhóroin	τῶν κορχόρων tôn korkhórōn
Dative	τῷ κορχόρῳ tôi korkhórōi	τοῖν κορχόροιν toîn korkhóroin	τοῖς κορχόροις toîs korkhórois
Accusative	τὸν κόρχορον tòn kórkhoron	τὼ κορχόρω tṑ korkhórō	τοὺς κορχόρους toùs korkhórous
Vocative	κόρχορε kórkhore	κορχόρω korkhórō	κόρχοροι kórkhoroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Corchorus

Further reading

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