κίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. Sanskrit कीट (kīṭa, “worm, insect”) is unrelated. According to Beekes, probably from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kǐːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /cis/
Noun
κῑ́ς • (kī́s) m (genitive κῑός); third declension
- weevil (beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea)
Usage notes
For the declension, compare λῑ́ς (lī́s, “lion”).
Declension
Descendants
- → Translingual: Cis
Further reading
- “κίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κίς 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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