κόστος

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κόστον (kóston)

Etymology

From Sanskrit कुष्ठ (kuṣṭha).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kós.tos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.tos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.tos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.tos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.tos/

Noun

κόστος • (kóstos) m (genitive κόστου); second declension

costus (Saussurea costus), used as a spice

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόστος; τοῦ κόστου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόστος ho kóstos	τὼ κόστω tṑ kóstō	οἱ κόστοι hoi kóstoi
Genitive	τοῦ κόστου toû kóstou	τοῖν κόστοιν toîn kóstoin	τῶν κόστων tôn kóstōn
Dative	τῷ κόστῳ tôi kóstōi	τοῖν κόστοιν toîn kóstoin	τοῖς κόστοις toîs kóstois
Accusative	τὸν κόστον tòn kóston	τὼ κόστω tṑ kóstō	τοὺς κόστους toùs kóstous
Vocative	κόστε kóste	κόστω kóstō	κόστοι kóstoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

κοστόϊνος (kostóïnos)

Descendants

→ Latin: costus
- → English: costus
- → Translingual: Costus

Further reading

“κόστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κόστος 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 Italian costo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈko.stos/

Noun

κόστος • (kóstos) n (plural κόστη)

(finance) cost
money or effort expended in achieving something
(finance) cost price
rate
consequences

Declension

Declension of κόστος

	singular	plural
nominative	κόστος •	κόστη •
genitive	κόστους •	κοστών •
accusative	κόστος •	κόστη •
vocative	κόστος •	κόστη •

See also

τιμή f (timí, “various meanings”)
δαπάνη f (dapáni, “expenditure, payment”)
τίμημα n (tímima, “price”)
αντίτιμο n (antítimo, “price”)

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