κιρσός
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
According to Beekes, the variation "σ/ξ" shows that the word is from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kir.sós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kirˈsos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cirˈsos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cirˈsos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /cirˈsos/
Noun
κῐρσός • (kirsós) m (genitive κῐρσοῦ); second declension
- (pathology) varicocele, enlargement of a vein
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κῐρσός ho kirsós |
τὼ κῐρσώ tṑ kirsṓ |
οἱ κῐρσοί hoi kirsoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κῐρσοῦ toû kirsoû |
τοῖν κῐρσοῖν toîn kirsoîn |
τῶν κῐρσῶν tôn kirsôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κῐρσῷ tôi kirsôi |
τοῖν κῐρσοῖν toîn kirsoîn |
τοῖς κῐρσοῖς toîs kirsoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κῐρσόν tòn kirsón |
τὼ κῐρσώ tṑ kirsṓ |
τοὺς κῐρσούς toùs kirsoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῐρσέ kirsé |
κῐρσώ kirsṓ |
κῐρσοί kirsoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κίρσιον (kírsion)
- κιρσοειδής (kirsoeidḗs)
- κιρσοκήλη (kirsokḗlē)
- κιρσοτομέω (kirsotoméō)
- κιρσοτομία (kirsotomía)
- κιρσουλκέω (kirsoulkéō)
- κιρσουλκία (kirsoulkía)
- κιρσουλκός (kirsoulkós)
- κιρσόω (kirsóō)
- κιρσώδης (kirsṓdēs)
- κίρσωσις (kírsōsis)
Further reading
- “κιρσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κιρσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κιρσός (kirsós), from κρίκος (kríkos) or κίρκος (kírkos).
Noun
κιρσός • (kirsós) m
Declension
Declension of κιρσός
Further reading
Κιρσοί on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
