κέρθιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained; the word hardly belongs to κρέξ (kréx). Perhaps from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kér.tʰi.os/ → /ˈcer.θi.os/ → /ˈcer.θi.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kér.tʰi.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈker.tʰi.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.θi.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.θi.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.θi.os/

Noun

κέρθῐος • (kérthios) m (genitive κερθίου); second declension

1. treecreeper (Certhia familiaris)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κέρθῐος; τοῦ κερθῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κέρθῐος ho kérthios	τὼ κερθῐ́ω tṑ kerthíō	οἱ κέρθῐοι hoi kérthioi
Genitive	τοῦ κερθῐ́ου toû kerthíou	τοῖν κερθῐ́οιν toîn kerthíoin	τῶν κερθῐ́ων tôn kerthíōn
Dative	τῷ κερθῐ́ῳ tôi kerthíōi	τοῖν κερθῐ́οιν toîn kerthíoin	τοῖς κερθῐ́οις toîs kerthíois
Accusative	τὸν κέρθῐον tòn kérthion	τὼ κερθῐ́ω tṑ kerthíō	τοὺς κερθῐ́ους toùs kerthíous
Vocative	κέρθῐε kérthie	κερθῐ́ω kerthíō	κέρθῐοι kérthioi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Certhia

Further reading

• “κέρθιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κέρθιος 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