κύαθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Sometimes connected with κύαρ (kúar, “eye of a needle”) but according to Beekes of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.a.tʰos/ → /ˈcy.a.θos/ → /ˈci.a.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.a.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.a.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.a.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.a.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.a.θos/

Noun

κύᾰθος • (kúăthos) m (genitive κῠάθου); second declension

1. ladle for drawing wine
2. Attic measure for liquids

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠ́ᾰθος; τοῦ κῠᾰ́θου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠ́ᾰθος ho kŭ́ăthos	τὼ κῠᾰ́θω tṑ kŭắthō	οἱ κῠ́ᾰθοι hoi kŭ́ăthoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠᾰ́θου toû kŭắthou	τοῖν κῠᾰ́θοιν toîn kŭắthoin	τῶν κῠᾰ́θων tôn kŭắthōn
Dative	τῷ κῠᾰ́θῳ tôi kŭắthōi	τοῖν κῠᾰ́θοιν toîn kŭắthoin	τοῖς κῠᾰ́θοις toîs kŭắthois
Accusative	τὸν κῠ́ᾰθον tòn kŭ́ăthon	τὼ κῠᾰ́θω tṑ kŭắthō	τοὺς κῠᾰ́θους toùs kŭắthous
Vocative	κῠ́ᾰθε kŭ́ăthe	κῠᾰ́θω kŭắthō	κῠ́ᾰθοι kŭ́ăthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κυαθίζω (kuathízō)
• κυάθιον (kuáthion)
• κυαθίσκος (kuathískos)
• κυαθώδης (kuathṓdēs)

Descendants

• Latin: cyathus
• → English: kyathos

Further reading

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