κυνόσβατος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κύων (kúōn, “dog”) +‎ βάτος (bátos, “blackberry”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ky.nóz.ba.tos/ → /cyˈnoz.βa.tos/ → /ciˈnoz.va.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.nóz.ba.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈnoz.ba.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈnoz.βa.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈnoz.va.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈnoz.va.tos/

Noun

κῠνόσβᾰτος • (kunósbatos) f (genitive κῠνοσβᾰ́του); second declension

1. evergreen rose (Rosa sempervirens)

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ κῠνόσβᾰτος; τῆς κῠνοσβᾰ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῠνόσβᾰτος hē kunósbatos	τὼ κῠνοσβᾰ́τω tṑ kunosbátō	αἱ κῠνόσβᾰτοι hai kunósbatoi
Genitive	τῆς κῠνοσβᾰ́του tês kunosbátou	τοῖν κῠνοσβᾰ́τοιν toîn kunosbátoin	τῶν κῠνοσβᾰ́των tôn kunosbátōn
Dative	τῇ κῠνοσβᾰ́τῳ têi kunosbátōi	τοῖν κῠνοσβᾰ́τοιν toîn kunosbátoin	ταῖς κῠνοσβᾰ́τοις taîs kunosbátois
Accusative	τὴν κῠνόσβᾰτον tḕn kunósbaton	τὼ κῠνοσβᾰ́τω tṑ kunosbátō	τᾱ̀ς κῠνοσβᾰ́τους tā̀s kunosbátous
Vocative	κῠνόσβᾰτε kunósbate	κῠνοσβᾰ́τω kunosbátō	κῠνόσβᾰτοι kunósbatoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cynosbatos

Further reading

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