κύτινος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Because of the meaning "calyx", the word has been connected with κύτος (kútos, “hollow, vessel”). However, Furnée compares κύταρον (kútaron, “spoon”), κύδαρος (kúdaros, “small ship”), κύτταρος (kúttaros, “cell of a honeycomb”), κυττοί (kuttoí, “receptacles”). This points to a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.ti.nos/ → /ˈcy.ti.nos/ → /ˈci.ti.nos/

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

Noun

κῠ́τῐνος • (kútinos) m (genitive κῠτῐ́νου); second declension

1. flower of the pomegranate

   Synonym: βαλαύστιον (balaústion)

2. calyx of the pomegranate
3. hypocist (Cytinus hypocistis)

   Synonym: ὑποκιστίς (hupokistís)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠ́τῐνος; τοῦ κῠτῐ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠ́τῐνος ho kútinos	τὼ κῠτῐ́νω tṑ kutínō	οἱ κῠ́τῐνοι hoi kútinoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠτῐ́νου toû kutínou	τοῖν κῠτῐ́νοιν toîn kutínoin	τῶν κῠτῐ́νων tôn kutínōn
Dative	τῷ κῠτῐ́νῳ tôi kutínōi	τοῖν κῠτῐ́νοιν toîn kutínoin	τοῖς κῠτῐ́νοις toîs kutínois
Accusative	τὸν κῠ́τῐνον tòn kútinon	τὼ κῠτῐ́νω tṑ kutínō	τοὺς κῠτῐ́νους toùs kutínous
Vocative	κῠ́τῐνε kútine	κῠτῐ́νω kutínō	κῠ́τῐνοι kútinoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κυτινώδης (kutinṓdēs)

Descendants

• → Latin: cytinus
• → Translingual: Cytinus

Further reading

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