κόρυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from a Mediterranean Pre-Greek substrate word, as hinted by the suffixes. Traditionally linked to Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“head, top, skull, horn”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κόρῠς • (kórus) f (genitive κόρῠθος); third declension

  1. helmet

Declension
Third declension of ἡ κόρῠς; τῆς κόρῠθος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ κόρῠς
hē kórus		 τὼ κόρῠθε
tṑ kóruthe		 αἱ κόρῠθες
hai kóruthes
Genitive τῆς κόρῠθος
tês kóruthos		 τοῖν κορῠ́θοιν
toîn korúthoin		 τῶν κορῠ́θων
tôn korúthōn
Dative τῇ κόρῠθῐ
têi kóruthi		 τοῖν κορῠ́θοιν
toîn korúthoin		 ταῖς κόρῠσῐ / κόρῠσῐν
taîs kórusi(n)
Accusative τὴν κόρυν / κόρυθα
tḕn kórun / kórutha		 τὼ κόρῠθε
tṑ kóruthe		 τᾱ̀ς κόρῠθᾰς
tā̀s kóruthas
Vocative κόρῠς
kórus		 κόρῠθε
kóruthe		 κόρῠθες
kóruthes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-tʰs.

Derived terms

References
  • 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

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