καῦκος

Ancient Greek

Unknown. Schrijver compares Old Irish cuach (“cup”), suggesting a derivation from Proto-Celtic *kaɸukos (“cup”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, hold”).[1]

καῦκος • (kaûkos) m (genitive καύκου); second declension

Second declension of ὁ καῦκος; τοῦ καύκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ καῦκος ho kaûkos	τὼ καύκω tṑ kaúkō	οἱ καῦκοι hoi kaûkoi
Genitive	τοῦ καύκου toû kaúkou	τοῖν καύκοιν toîn kaúkoin	τῶν καύκων tôn kaúkōn
Dative	τῷ καύκῳ tôi kaúkōi	τοῖν καύκοιν toîn kaúkoin	τοῖς καύκοις toîs kaúkois
Accusative	τὸν καῦκον tòn kaûkon	τὼ καύκω tṑ kaúkō	τοὺς καύκους toùs kaúkous
Vocative	καῦκε kaûke	καύκω kaúkō	καῦκοι kaûkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 264

“καῦκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
καῦκος 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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