κανθαρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κάνθαρος (kántharos, “dung beetle”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kan.tʰa.rís/ → /kan.θaˈris/ → /kan.θaˈris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kan.tʰa.rís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kan.tʰaˈris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kan.θaˈris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kan.θaˈris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kan.θaˈris/

Noun

κᾰνθᾰρῐ́ς • (kantharís) f (genitive κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δος); third declension

1. Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria)
2. kind of fish

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κᾰνθᾰρῐ́ς; τῆς κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰνθᾰρῐ́ς hē kantharís	τὼ κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δε tṑ kantharíde	αἱ κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δες hai kantharídes
Genitive	τῆς κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δος tês kantharídos	τοῖν κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn kantharídoin	τῶν κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δων tôn kantharídōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δῐ têi kantharídi	τοῖν κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn kantharídoin	ταῖς κᾰνθᾰρῐ́σῐ / κᾰνθᾰρῐ́σῐν taîs kantharísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δᾰ tḕn kantharída	τὼ κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δε tṑ kantharíde	τᾱ̀ς κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kantharídas
Vocative	κᾰνθᾰρῐ́ς kantharís	κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δε kantharíde	κᾰνθᾰρῐ́δες kantharídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: cantharis
• → Translingual: Cantharis

References

• “κανθαρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κανθαρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette