κίς

See also: κις and Appendix:Variations of "kis"

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. Sanskrit कीट (kīṭa, “worm, insect”) is unrelated. According to Beekes, probably from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κῑ́ς • (kī́s) m (genitive κῑός); third declension

  1. weevil (beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea)

Declension

Irregular declension of ὁ κῑ́ς; τοῦ κῑός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Plural
Nominative ὁ κῑ́ς
ho kī́s 		—
Genitive τοῦ κῑός
toû kīós 		—
Dative — —
Accusative τὸν κῖν
tòn kîn 		τοὺς κῑ́ᾰς
toùs kī́ăs
Vocative — —
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • The declension is superficially similar to that of λῑ́ς (lī́s, “lion”), but the two terms are too sparsely-attested to draw any useful comparisons.

Descendants

  • → Translingual: Cis

Further reading

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