δαῦκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Has been connected with δαίω (daíō, “to kindle, burn”), because of the burning taste of the root, and with δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dâu̯.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈdaʍ.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈðaɸ.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈðaf.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈðaf.kos/
Noun
δαῦκος • (daûkos) m (genitive δαύκου); second declension
- The name of several umbelliferous plants
- An Attic measure for liquids
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ δαῦκος ho daûkos |
τὼ δαύκω tṑ daúkō |
οἱ δαῦκοι hoi daûkoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ δαύκου toû daúkou |
τοῖν δαύκοιν toîn daúkoin |
τῶν δαύκων tôn daúkōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ δαύκῳ tôi daúkōi |
τοῖν δαύκοιν toîn daúkoin |
τοῖς δαύκοις toîs daúkois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν δαῦκον tòn daûkon |
τὼ δαύκω tṑ daúkō |
τοὺς δαύκους toùs daúkous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | δαῦκε daûke |
δαύκω daúkō |
δαῦκοι daûkoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δαυκίτης (daukítēs)
Descendants
Further reading
- “δαῦκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- δαῦκος 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
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