Κνίδος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly form κνίδη (knídē, “stinging needle”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kní.dos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkni.dos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkni.ðos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkni.ðos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkni.ðos/
Proper noun
Κνῐ́δος • (Knídos) f (genitive Κνῐ́δου); second declension
- Cnidus (Knidos, south-western Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey)
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Κνίδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G2834 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,006
