κύστις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”) or from κύω (kúō).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kýs.tis/ → /ˈcys.tis/ → /ˈcis.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kýs.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkys.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcys.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcys.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈcis.tis/

Noun

κύστις • (kústis) f (genitive κύστεως); third declension

1. bladder

   Synonym: φῦσᾰ (phûsa)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κῠ́στῐς; τῆς κῠ́στεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῠ́στῐς hē kústis	τὼ κῠ́στει tṑ kústei	αἱ κῠ́στεις hai kústeis
Genitive	τῆς κῠ́στεως tês kústeōs	τοῖν κῠστέοιν toîn kustéoin	τῶν κῠ́στεων tôn kústeōn
Dative	τῇ κῠ́στει têi kústei	τοῖν κῠστέοιν toîn kustéoin	ταῖς κῠ́στεσῐ / κῠ́στεσῐν taîs kústesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κῠ́στῐν tḕn kústin	τὼ κῠ́στει tṑ kústei	τᾱ̀ς κῠ́στεις tā̀s kústeis
Vocative	κῠ́στῐ kústi	κῠ́στει kústei	κῠ́στεις kústeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κύστιον (kústion)

Descendants

• French: kyste
• Greek: κύστη (kýsti)

References

• “κύστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κύστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κύστις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κύστις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κύστις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 951