κόνις

See also: κονίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ken- (dust, ashes). Cognate with Latin cinis and Sanskrit कण (káṇa).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κόνῐς • (kónis) f (genitive κόνεως or κόνῐος or κόνεος); third declension

  1. dust
  2. (figuratively) the multitude
  3. ashes
  4. the powder sprinkled upon wrestlers

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: σκόνη (skóni, powder, dust)

References

  • κόνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κόνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • κόνις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κόνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κόνις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • κόνις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • 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
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