κάκτος

Ancient Greek

A foreign loan, possibly from Pre-Greek.^[1]

κᾰ́κτος • (kắktos) f or m (genitive κᾰ́κτου); second declension

(feminine) the cardoon, Cynara cardunculus
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 6.4.10
- 340 BCE – 285 BCE, Philitas, Collected Works 16
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 10.4
- Antig., Mir. 8
- 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Alex. 33
(masculine) the artichoke (the fruit of the cardoon); also, the cardoon’s edible leaf-stalks
- 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 159
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 6.4.10

Second declension of ὁ / ἡ κᾰ́κτος; τοῦ / τῆς κᾰ́κτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ / ἡ κᾰ́κτος ho / hē kắktos	τὼ κᾰ́κτω tṑ kắktō	οἱ / αἱ κᾰ́κτοι hoi / hai kắktoi
Genitive	τοῦ / τῆς κᾰ́κτου toû / tês kắktou	τοῖν κᾰ́κτοιν toîn kắktoin	τῶν κᾰ́κτων tôn kắktōn
Dative	τῷ / τῇ κᾰ́κτῳ tōî / tēî kắktōi	τοῖν κᾰ́κτοιν toîn kắktoin	τοῖς / ταῖς κᾰ́κτοις toîs / taîs kắktois
Accusative	τὸν / τὴν κᾰ́κτον tòn / tḕn kắkton	τὼ κᾰ́κτω tṑ kắktō	τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́κτους toùs / tā̀s kắktous
Vocative	κᾰ́κτε kắkte	κᾰ́κτω kắktō	κᾰ́κτοι kắktoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κάκτος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 620

Learned borrowing from New Latin cactus, from the Ancient Greek κάκτος (káktos).

κάκτος • (káktos) m (plural κάκτοι)

κάκτος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language