κόκκος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from Pre-Greek. Potential cognates include Spanish cuesco (“stone (of fruit)”), though this is rejected by Furnee.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kók.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkok.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.kos/
Noun
κόκκος • (kókkos) m (genitive κόκκου); second declension
- grain, seed, kernel
- The kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
- insects of the genus Kermes, which live on the oak.
- A scarlet dye made from the crushed bodies of the kermes bugs
- scarletberry (Solanum dulcamara)
- the colour scarlet
- testicle
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κόκκος ho kókkos |
τὼ κόκκω tṑ kókkō |
οἱ κόκκοι hoi kókkoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κόκκου toû kókkou |
τοῖν κόκκοιν toîn kókkoin |
τῶν κόκκων tôn kókkōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κόκκῳ tôi kókkōi |
τοῖν κόκκοιν toîn kókkoin |
τοῖς κόκκοις toîs kókkois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κόκκον tòn kókkon |
τὼ κόκκω tṑ kókkō |
τοὺς κόκκους toùs kókkous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κόκκε kókke |
κόκκω kókkō |
κόκκοι kókkoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κόκκᾰλος (kókkalos)
- κόκκῐνος (kókkinos)
- κοκκοθραύστης (kokkothraústēs)
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόκκος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 733
Further reading
- “κόκκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόκκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόκκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2848 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κόκκος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos).
Noun
κόκκος • (kókkos) m (plural κόκκοι)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | κόκκος (kókkos) | κόκκοι (kókkoi) |
| genitive | κόκκου (kókkou) | κόκκων (kókkon) |
| accusative | κόκκο (kókko) | κόκκους (kókkous) |
| vocative | κόκκε (kókke) | κόκκοι (kókkoi) |
Related terms
- στρεπτόκοκκος m (streptókokkos, “streptococcus”)