κίσθος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κῐ́στος (kĭ́stos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kís.tʰos/ → /ˈcis.θos/ → /ˈcis.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kís.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkis.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcis.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcis.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈcis.θos/

Noun

κίσθος • (kísthos) m (genitive κίσθου); second declension

1. rockrose (Cistus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῐ́σθος; τοῦ κῐ́σθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῐ́σθος ho kĭ́sthos	τὼ κῐ́σθω tṑ kĭ́sthō	οἱ κῐ́σθοι hoi kĭ́sthoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῐ́σθου toû kĭ́sthou	τοῖν κῐ́σθοιν toîn kĭ́sthoin	τῶν κῐ́σθων tôn kĭ́sthōn
Dative	τῷ κῐ́σθῳ tôi kĭ́sthōi	τοῖν κῐ́σθοιν toîn kĭ́sthoin	τοῖς κῐ́σθοις toîs kĭ́sthois
Accusative	τὸν κῐ́σθον tòn kĭ́sthon	τὼ κῐ́σθω tṑ kĭ́sthō	τοὺς κῐ́σθους toùs kĭ́sthous
Vocative	κῐ́σθε kĭ́sthe	κῐ́σθω kĭ́sthō	κῐ́σθοι kĭ́sthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: قِسْتُوس (qistūs), قَلْسُوس (qalsūs), قَسُّوس (qassūs)
• → Latin: cisthos
  • Translingual: Cistus

Further reading

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