Κύνθος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The name's meaning is unknown, but suggestive of Pre-Greek forms.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kýn.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkyn.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcyn.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcyn.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcin.θos/
Proper noun
Κῠ́νθος • (Kúnthos) m (genitive Κῠ́νθου); second declension
- Cynthus, a mountain in Delos, Cyclades, Greece
Inflection
Derived terms
- Κῠ́νθῐος (Kúnthios)
Descendants
References
- “Κύνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Κύνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007
- 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