Κοῖος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly derived from κοῖος (koîos), also spelt ποῖος (poîos, “what?, which?, of what kind?, of what nature?”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kôi̯.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.os/
Proper noun
Κοῖος • (Koîos) m (genitive Κοίου); second declension
Inflection
Further reading
- “Κοῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Κοῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Κοῖος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter