εἰκάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εἴκοσῐ (eíkosi, “twenty”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eː.kás/ → /iˈkas/ → /iˈkas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eː.kás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈkas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈkas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈkas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈkas/

Noun

εἰκᾰ́ς • (eikás) f (genitive εἰκᾰ́δος); third declension

1. The twentieth day of the month
2. (in the plural) The last ten days of the month

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ εἰκᾰ́ς; τῆς εἰκᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εἰκᾰ́ς hē eikás	τὼ εἰκᾰ́δε tṑ eikáde	αἱ εἰκᾰ́δες hai eikádes
Genitive	τῆς εἰκᾰ́δος tês eikádos	τοῖν εἰκᾰ́δοιν toîn eikádoin	τῶν εἰκᾰ́δων tôn eikádōn
Dative	τῇ εἰκᾰ́δῐ têi eikádi	τοῖν εἰκᾰ́δοιν toîn eikádoin	ταῖς εἰκᾰ́σῐ / εἰκᾰ́σῐν taîs eikási(n)
Accusative	τὴν εἰκᾰ́δᾰ tḕn eikáda	τὼ εἰκᾰ́δε tṑ eikáde	τᾱ̀ς εἰκᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s eikádas
Vocative	εἰκᾰ́ς eikás	εἰκᾰ́δε eikáde	εἰκᾰ́δες eikádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Latin: īcas

References

• “εἰκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἰκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εἰκάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• εἰκάς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• εἰκάς 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