κάνδυς
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Old Persian *kandu- (literally “cloak”) or kantu- (literally “covering”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kán.dys/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkan.dys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkan.dys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkan.dys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkan.dis/
Noun edit
κάνδῠς • (kándus) m (genitive κάνδῠος); third declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κᾰ́νδῠς ho kándus |
τὼ κᾰ́νδῠε tṑ kándue |
οἱ κᾰ́νδῠες hoi kándues | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰ́νδῠος toû kánduos |
τοῖν κᾰνδῠ́οιν toîn kandúoin |
τῶν κᾰνδῠ́ων tôn kandúōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰ́νδῠῐ̈ / κᾰ́νδυι tôi kánduï / kándui |
τοῖν κᾰνδῠ́οιν toîn kandúoin |
τοῖς κᾰ́νδῠσῐ / κᾰ́νδῠσῐν toîs kándusi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κᾰ́νδῠν tòn kándun |
τὼ κᾰ́νδῠε tṑ kándue |
τοὺς κᾰ́νδῡς / κᾰ́νδῠᾰς toùs kándūs / kánduas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́νδῠ kándu |
κᾰ́νδῠε kándue |
κᾰ́νδῠες kándues | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
- → English: kandys
References edit
- ^ Rüdiger Schmitt, "CANDYS" in Encyclopædia Iranica, December 15, 1990
Further reading edit
- “κάνδυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάνδυς 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