κίσσα
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From an onomatopoeic root, similar to Sanskrit कीकि (kīki, “jay”), किकिदीवि (kikidīvi, “blue jay; partridge”) and Old English higora (“magpie”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kís.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkis.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcis.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcis.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.sa/
Noun
κίσσᾰ • (kíssa) f (genitive κίσσης); first declension
- Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)
- longing of pregnant women, craving for strange food
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κῐ́σσᾰ hē kíssa |
τὼ κῐ́σσᾱ tṑ kíssā |
αἱ κῐ́σσαι hai kíssai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κῐ́σσης tês kíssēs |
τοῖν κῐ́σσαιν toîn kíssain |
τῶν κῐσσῶν tôn kissôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κῐ́σσῃ têi kíssēi |
τοῖν κῐ́σσαιν toîn kíssain |
ταῖς κῐ́σσαις taîs kíssais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κῐ́σσᾰν tḕn kíssan |
τὼ κῐ́σσᾱ tṑ kíssā |
τᾱ̀ς κῐ́σσᾱς tā̀s kíssās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῐ́σσᾰ kíssa |
κῐ́σσᾱ kíssā |
κῐ́σσαι kíssai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “κίσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κίσσα 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
Noun
κίσσα • (kíssa) f (plural κίσσες)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | κίσσα (kíssa) | κίσσες (kísses) |
| genitive | κίσσας (kíssas) | κισσών (kissón) |
| accusative | κίσσα (kíssa) | κίσσες (kísses) |
| vocative | κίσσα (kíssa) | κίσσες (kísses) |
Further reading
κίσσα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
