κώνωψ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Beekes dismisses a derivation from κῶνος (kônos, “cone”) and ὤψ (ṓps, “face”) and prefers to derive it from Pre-Greek. Compare, however, Egyptian ḫnws, ḫnms (“a kind of stinging insect”), which has also been suggested as a source.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɔ̌ː.nɔːps/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.nops/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.nops/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.nops/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.nops/
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κώνωψ ho kṓnōps |
τὼ κώνωπε tṑ kṓnōpe |
οἱ κώνωπες hoi kṓnōpes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κώνωπος toû kṓnōpos |
τοῖν κωνώποιν toîn kōnṓpoin |
τῶν κωνώπων tôn kōnṓpōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κώνωπῐ tôi kṓnōpi |
τοῖν κωνώποιν toîn kōnṓpoin |
τοῖς κώνωψῐ / κώνωψῐν toîs kṓnōpsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κώνωπᾰ tòn kṓnōpa |
τὼ κώνωπε tṑ kṓnōpe |
τοὺς κώνωπᾰς toùs kṓnōpas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κώνωψ kṓnōps |
κώνωπε kṓnōpe |
κώνωπες kṓnōpes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon)
- κωνωποειδής (kōnōpoeidḗs)
- κωνωποθήρας (kōnōpothḗras)
- κωνωποσφράντης (kōnōposphrántēs)
Further reading
- “κώνωψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κώνωψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κώνωψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κώνωψ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 815
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