κυρτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word remains without direct agreement. The comparison with Latin curvus (“curved”) presupposes that the Greek adjective continues a reduced grade *kʷr-to- with u coloring. As a u colored reduced grade is difficult, it is doubtful whether this comparison is valid at all. The comparison with κορώνη (korṓnē, “anything curved”) is also unfounded.

Pronunciation

Adjective

κῠρτός • (kurtós) m (feminine κῠρτή, neuter κῠρτόν); first/second declension

1. bulging, swelling
2. arched, vaulted
3. humped, hunchbacked, gibbous

   Synonym: ὑβός (hubós)

4. convex, outcurved

   Antonym: κοῖλος (koîlos)

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: κυρτός (kyrtós)

Further reading

• “κυρτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κυρτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κυρτός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κυρτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κυρτός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κυρτός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 808

Greek

Adjective

κυρτός • (kyrtós) m (feminine κυρτή, neuter κυρτό)

1. convex

Declension

Antonyms

• κοίλος (koílos, “concave”)

Descendants

• Translingual: Cyrtandra