κόνδυ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Like many words ending in -ῠ, it is a loanword. Furnée compares κοτύλη (kotúlē, “cup”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin, while Szemerényi refers to late Neo-Babylonian 𒃶𒁺 (kandu, “vessel”) which is considered a West Semitic borrowing: Aramaic כנדא (kandā, “vessel, pot; specifically for wine”), found also in the forms כַּד (kaḏ), כדא (kaddā), Biblical Hebrew כַּד (kad), Punic 𐤊𐤃 (kd), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎄 (kd), and Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos).

Pronunciation

Noun

κόνδῠ • (kóndu) n (genitive κόνδῠος); third declension

1. a kind of drinking vessel
2. a unit of volume derived from the vessel

Inflection

Further reading

• A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Condy
• Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Condy
• “κόνδυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόνδυ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόνδυ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 745