κότινος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, probably a loanword from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

κότῐνος • (kótinos) m (genitive κοτίνου); second declension

1. wild olive tree (Olea europaea, syn. Olea oleaster)

   Synonym: ἄγριππος (ágrippos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κότῐνος; τοῦ κοτῐ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κότῐνος ho kótinos	τὼ κοτῐ́νω tṑ kotínō	οἱ κότῐνοι hoi kótinoi
Genitive	τοῦ κοτῐ́νου toû kotínou	τοῖν κοτῐ́νοιν toîn kotínoin	τῶν κοτῐ́νων tôn kotínōn
Dative	τῷ κοτῐ́νῳ tôi kotínōi	τοῖν κοτῐ́νοιν toîn kotínoin	τοῖς κοτῐ́νοις toîs kotínois
Accusative	τὸν κότῐνον tòn kótinon	τὼ κοτῐ́νω tṑ kotínō	τοὺς κοτῐ́νους toùs kotínous
Vocative	κότῐνε kótine	κοτῐ́νω kotínō	κότῐνοι kótinoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κοτινάς (kotinás)
• κοτινηφόρος (kotinēphóros)
• κοτινοτράγος (kotinotrágos)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: cotinus
• → Translingual: Cotimus

Further reading

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