καυνάκης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γαυνάκης (gaunákēs)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *gaunaka (literally “hairy”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kau̯.ná.kɛːs/ → /kaˈβna.cis/ → /kaˈvna.cis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kau̯.ná.kɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kawˈna.ke̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈβna.cis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈvna.cis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈvna.cis/

Noun

καυνᾰ́κης • (kaunákēs) m (genitive καυνᾰ́κου); first declension

1. thick cloak said to be of Persian or Babylonian make

Inflection

First declension of ὁ καυνᾰ́κης; τοῦ καυνᾰ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ καυνᾰ́κης ho kaunákēs	τὼ καυνᾰ́κᾱ tṑ kaunákā	οἱ καυνᾰ́και hoi kaunákai
Genitive	τοῦ καυνᾰ́κου toû kaunákou	τοῖν καυνᾰ́καιν toîn kaunákain	τῶν καυνᾰκῶν tôn kaunakôn
Dative	τῷ καυνᾰ́κῃ tôi kaunákēi	τοῖν καυνᾰ́καιν toîn kaunákain	τοῖς καυνᾰ́καις toîs kaunákais
Accusative	τὸν καυνᾰ́κην tòn kaunákēn	τὼ καυνᾰ́κᾱ tṑ kaunákā	τοὺς καυνᾰ́κᾱς toùs kaunákās
Vocative	καυνᾰ́κη kaunákē	καυνᾰ́κᾱ kaunákā	καυνᾰ́και kaunákai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καυνάκιον (kaunákion)

Further reading

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