καδύτας

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κασύτας (kasútas)

Etymology

From Aramaic, represented by Jewish Babylonian Aramaic כְּשׁוּתָא (kəšūṯā, “dodder”), Classical Syriac ܟܫܽܘܬܳܐ (kəšūṯā, “dodder”), Arabic كُشُوث (kušūṯ, “dodder”). See these entries for their possible origin. According to de Lagarde καδύτας is completely unreal as a transcription error, that however Pliny already had in his manuscript of Theophrast, and only κασύτας (kasútas) has been spoken.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.dý.taːs/ → /kaˈðy.tas/ → /kaˈði.tas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.dý.taːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈdy.tas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈðy.tas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈðy.tas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈði.tas/

Noun

κᾰδύτᾱς • (kadútās) m (genitive κᾰδύτου); first declension

1. love vine (Cassytha filiformis)

Inflection

First declension of ὁ κᾰδύτᾱς; τοῦ κᾰδύτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰδύτᾱς ho kadútās	τὼ κᾰδύτᾱ tṑ kadútā	οἱ κᾰδύται hoi kadútai
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰδύτου toû kadútou	τοῖν κᾰδύταιν toîn kadútain	τῶν κᾰδυτῶν tôn kadutôn
Dative	τῷ κᾰδύτᾳ tôi kadútāi	τοῖν κᾰδύταιν toîn kadútain	τοῖς κᾰδύταις toîs kadútais
Accusative	τὸν κᾰδύτᾱν tòn kadútān	τὼ κᾰδύτᾱ tṑ kadútā	τοὺς κᾰδύτᾱς toùs kadútās
Vocative	κᾰδύτᾱ kadútā	κᾰδύτᾱ kadútā	κᾰδύται kadútai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cassytas, cassythas, cadytas
  • → Translingual: Cassytha

Further reading

• “καδύτας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καδύτας 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
• Lagarde, Paul de (1887) Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, pages 358–359