κύμινδις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κύβινδις (kúbindis)

Etymology

Clearly a loanword, because of the suffix "-νδ-"; perhaps of Anatolian or Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.min.dis/ → /ˈcy.min.dis/ → /ˈci.min.dis/

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

Noun

κύ̆μινδῐς • (kúmindis) m or f (genitive κῠμίνδῐδος); third declension

1. name of an unknown bird

Declension

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ κύ̆μινδῐς; τοῦ, τῆς κῠμίνδῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ κύ̆μινδῐς ho, hē kúmindis	τὼ κῠμίνδῐδε tṑ kumíndide	οἱ, αἱ κῠμίνδῐδες hoi, hai kumíndides
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς κῠμίνδῐδος toû, tês kumíndidos	τοῖν κῠμινδῐ́δοιν toîn kumindídoin	τῶν κῠμινδῐ́δων tôn kumindídōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ κῠμίνδῐδῐ tôi, têi kumíndidi	τοῖν κῠμινδῐ́δοιν toîn kumindídoin	τοῖς, ταῖς κῠμίνδῐσῐ / κῠμίνδῐσῐν toîs, taîs kumíndisi(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν κῠμίνδῐδᾰ tòn, tḕn kumíndida	τὼ κῠμίνδῐδε tṑ kumíndide	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κῠμίνδῐδᾰς toùs, tā̀s kumíndidas
Vocative	κύ̆μινδῐς kúmindis	κῠμίνδῐδε kumíndide	κῠμίνδῐδες kumíndides
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: cybindis

References

• “κύμινδις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κύμινδις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κύμινδις 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