κόνις

See also: κονίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”). Cognate with Latin cinis and Sanskrit कण (káṇa).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.nis/ → /ˈko.nis/ → /ˈko.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.nis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.nis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.nis/

Noun

κόνῐς • (kónis) f (genitive κόνεως or κόνῐος or κόνεος); third declension

1. dust
2. (figuratively) the multitude
3. ashes
4. the powder sprinkled upon wrestlers

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κόνῐς; τῆς κόνῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κόνῐς hē kónis	τὼ κόνῐε tṑ kónie	αἱ κόνῐες hai kónies
Genitive	τῆς κόνῐος tês kónios	τοῖν κονῐ́οιν toîn koníoin	τῶν κονῐ́ων tôn koníōn
Dative	τῇ κόνῑ têi kónī	τοῖν κονῐ́οιν toîn koníoin	ταῖς κόνῐσῐ / κόνῐσῐν taîs kónisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κόνῐν tḕn kónin	τὼ κόνῐε tṑ kónie	τᾱ̀ς κόνῑς / κόνῐᾰς tā̀s kónīs / kónias
Vocative	κόνῐ kóni	κόνῐε kónie	κόνῐες kónies
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ἡ κόνῐς; τῆς κόνεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κόνῐς hē kónis	τὼ κόνει tṑ kónei	αἱ κόνεις hai kóneis
Genitive	τῆς κόνεως / κόνεος tês kóneōs / kóneos	τοῖν κονέοιν toîn konéoin	τῶν κόνεων tôn kóneōn
Dative	τῇ κόνει têi kónei	τοῖν κονέοιν toîn konéoin	ταῖς κόνεσῐ / κόνεσῐν taîs kónesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κόνῐν tḕn kónin	τὼ κόνει tṑ kónei	τᾱ̀ς κόνεις tā̀s kóneis
Vocative	κόνῐ kóni	κόνει kónei	κόνεις kóneis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κονιορτός (koniortós)
• κονῑ́ω (konī́ō)

Related terms

• κονῐ́ᾱ (koníā)

Descendants

• Greek: σκόνη (skóni, “powder, dust”)

References

• “κόνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κόνις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κόνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόνις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κόνις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dust idem, page 256.
  • grit idem, page 374.
  • powder idem, page 630.
  • sand idem, page 733.
• 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