καττύς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the same Pre-Greek root of κᾰσσῡ́ω (kăssū́ō, “to stitch, to sew together”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kat.ty̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /katˈtys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /katˈtys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /katˈtys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈtis/
Noun
κᾰττῡ́ς • (kăttū́s) f (genitive κᾰττῠ́ος); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κᾰττῡ́ς hē kăttū́s |
τὼ κᾰττῠ́ε tṑ kăttŭ́e |
αἱ κᾰττῠ́ες / κᾰττῦς hai kăttŭ́es / kăttûs | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κᾰττῠ́ος tês kăttŭ́os |
τοῖν κᾰττῠ́οιν toîn kăttŭ́oin |
τῶν κᾰττῠ́ων tôn kăttŭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κᾰττῠ́ῐ̈ / κᾰττυῖ tēî kăttŭ́ĭ̈ / kăttuî |
τοῖν κᾰττῠ́οιν toîn kăttŭ́oin |
ταῖς κᾰττῠ́σῐ / κᾰττῠ́σῐν taîs kăttŭ́sĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κᾰττῡ́ν tḕn kăttū́n |
τὼ κᾰττῠ́ε tṑ kăttŭ́e |
τᾱ̀ς κᾰττῦς / κᾰττῠ́ᾰς tā̀s kăttûs / kăttŭ́ăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰττῡ́ kăttū́ |
κᾰττῠ́ε kăttŭ́e |
κᾰττῠ́ες / κᾰττῦς kăttŭ́es / kăttûs | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “καττύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καττύς 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