κύαθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Sometimes connected with κύαρ (kúar, “eye of a needle”) but according to Beekes of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.a.tʰos/ → /ˈcy.a.θos/ → /ˈci.a.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.a.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.a.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.a.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.a.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.a.θos/

Noun

κύᾰθος • (kúathos) m (genitive κῠάθου); second declension

1. ladle for drawing wine
2. Attic measure for liquids

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠ́ᾰθος; τοῦ κῠᾰ́θου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠ́ᾰθος ho kúathos	τὼ κῠᾰ́θω tṑ kuáthō	οἱ κῠ́ᾰθοι hoi kúathoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠᾰ́θου toû kuáthou	τοῖν κῠᾰ́θοιν toîn kuáthoin	τῶν κῠᾰ́θων tôn kuáthōn
Dative	τῷ κῠᾰ́θῳ tôi kuáthōi	τοῖν κῠᾰ́θοιν toîn kuáthoin	τοῖς κῠᾰ́θοις toîs kuáthois
Accusative	τὸν κῠ́ᾰθον tòn kúathon	τὼ κῠᾰ́θω tṑ kuáthō	τοὺς κῠᾰ́θους toùs kuáthous
Vocative	κῠ́ᾰθε kúathe	κῠᾰ́θω kuáthō	κῠ́ᾰθοι kúathoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κυαθίζω (kuathízō)
• κυάθιον (kuáthion)
• κυαθίσκος (kuathískos)
• κυαθώδης (kuathṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• Latin: cyathus
• → English: kyathos

Further reading

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