Κέως
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Solmsen suggests derivation from unattested *κῆϝος (*kêwos, “fire”), from the same root of καίω (kaíō, “to burn”), which must be wrong as it is a Pre-Greek name. Fick compares this word with other placenames like Τέως (Téōs) and Κόως (Kóōs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ké.ɔːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈke.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈce.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈce.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈce.os/
Proper noun
Κέως • (Kéōs) f (genitive Κέω); Attic declension
Inflection
Derived terms
- Κεῖος (Keîos)
Descendants
Further reading
- “Κέως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Κέως”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Κέως”, 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,005
- 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