κώρυκος

See also: Κώρυκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Cognate to Latin corium (“leather”) and Proto-Celtic *korukos (“leather boat”), and ultimately a vriddhied derivative of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Nikolaev dismisses Beekes' claim that the word is from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.ry.kos/ → /ˈko.ry.kos/ → /ˈko.ri.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.ry.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ri.kos/

Noun

κώρῠκος • (kṓrukos) m (genitive κωρύκου); second declension

1. leathern sack or wallet for provisions

   Synonym: ᾰ̓́δορος (ádoros)

2. punchbag in the gymnasium
3. leathern quiver
4. (anatomy) scrotum

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κώρῠκος; τοῦ κωρῠ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κώρῠκος ho kṓrukos	τὼ κωρῠ́κω tṑ kōrúkō	οἱ κώρῠκοι hoi kṓrukoi
Genitive	τοῦ κωρῠ́κου toû kōrúkou	τοῖν κωρῠ́κοιν toîn kōrúkoin	τῶν κωρῠ́κων tôn kōrúkōn
Dative	τῷ κωρῠ́κῳ tôi kōrúkōi	τοῖν κωρῠ́κοιν toîn kōrúkoin	τοῖς κωρῠ́κοις toîs kōrúkois
Accusative	τὸν κώρῠκον tòn kṓrukon	τὼ κωρῠ́κω tṑ kōrúkō	τοὺς κωρῠ́κους toùs kōrúkous
Vocative	κώρῠκε kṓruke	κωρῠ́κω kōrúkō	κώρῠκοι kṓrukoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κωρυκίδιον (kōrukídion)
• κωρύκιον (kōrúkion)
• κωρυκίς (kōrukís)
• κωρυκοβολία (kōrukobolía)
• κωρυκομαχία (kōrukomakhía)
• κωρυκώδης (kōrukṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: cōrycus

Further reading

• “κώρυκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κώρυκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κώρυκος 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