σίκυος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • σῐκῠός (sikuós), σῐ́κῠς (síkus)

Etymology

From the same substrate/Pre-Greek root of σῐκῠ́α (sikúa, “bottle-gourd”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

σῐ́κῠος • (síkuos) m (genitive σῐκῠ́ου); second declension

  1. cucumber (Cucumis sativus)

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σῐ́κῠος; τοῦ σῐκῠ́ου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ σῐ́κῠος
ho síkuos		 τὼ σῐκῠ́ω
tṑ sikúō		 οἱ σῐ́κῠοι
hoi síkuoi
Genitive τοῦ σῐκῠ́ου
toû sikúou		 τοῖν σῐκῠ́οιν
toîn sikúoin		 τῶν σῐκῠ́ων
tôn sikúōn
Dative τῷ σῐκῠ́ῳ
tôi sikúōi		 τοῖν σῐκῠ́οιν
toîn sikúoin		 τοῖς σῐκῠ́οις
toîs sikúois
Accusative τὸν σῐ́κῠον
tòn síkuon		 τὼ σῐκῠ́ω
tṑ sikúō		 τοὺς σῐκῠ́ους
toùs sikúous
Vocative σῐ́κῠε
síkue		 σῐκῠ́ω
sikúō		 σῐ́κῠοι
síkuoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • σῐκῠ́δῐον (sikúdion)
  • σῐκῠηδόν (sikuēdón)
  • σῐκῠήλᾰτον (sikuḗlaton)
  • σῐκῠοπέπων (sikuopépōn)
  • σῐκῠώδης (sikuṓdēs)
  • σῐκῠών (sikuṓn)
  • σῐκῠώνη (sikuṓnē)
  • σῐκῠωνῐ́ᾱ (sikuōníā)

Descendants
  • → Translingual: Sicyos

Further reading
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