κόνις

See also: κονίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

  • From an o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *ken- (dust, ashes). Cognate with Latin cinis (cold ashes), Tocharian B kentse (dust, rust),[1] and Sanskrit कण (káṇa).

    Pronunciation

     

    Noun

    κόνῐς • (kónĭsf (genitive κόνεως or κόνῐος or κόνεος); third declension

    1. dust
    2. (figuratively) the multitude
    3. ashes
    4. the powder sprinkled upon wrestlers

    Inflection

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Greek: σκόνη (skóni, powder, dust)

    References

    1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κόνις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 746–747

    Further reading

    • κόνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • κόνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • κόνις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
    • κόνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
    • κόνις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
    • κόνις”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
    • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.