κέρκηρις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κερκήδης (kerkḗdēs)

Etymology

Compared with Latin querquedula (“teal”), which is paraphrased with κερκήδης (kerkḗdēs). It is uncertain whether this word belongs to κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”) or to the group of κρέξ (kréx, “corncrake”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kér.kɛː.ris/ → /ˈcer.ci.ris/ → /ˈcer.ci.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kér.kɛː.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈker.ke̝.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.ci.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.ci.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.ci.ris/

Noun

κέρκηρῐς • (kérkēris) m (genitive κερκήρεως); third declension

1. teal (Anas crecca)

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ κέρκηρῐς; τοῦ κερκήρεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κέρκηρῐς ho kérkēris	τὼ κερκήρει tṑ kerkḗrei	οἱ κερκήρεις hoi kerkḗreis
Genitive	τοῦ κερκήρεως toû kerkḗreōs	τοῖν κερκηρέοιν toîn kerkēréoin	τῶν κερκήρεων tôn kerkḗreōn
Dative	τῷ κερκήρει tôi kerkḗrei	τοῖν κερκηρέοιν toîn kerkēréoin	τοῖς κερκήρεσῐ / κερκήρεσῐν toîs kerkḗresi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κέρκηρῐν tòn kérkērin	τὼ κερκήρει tṑ kerkḗrei	τοὺς κερκήρεις toùs kerkḗreis
Vocative	κέρκηρῐ kérkēri	κερκήρει kerkḗrei	κερκήρεις kerkḗreis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cercēris
  • → Translingual: Cerceris

Further reading

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