κυρτός

Unclear. The comparison with Latin curvus (“curved”) presupposes that the Greek adjective continues a reduced grade *kʷr-to-s with u coloring, which is phonetically difficult and places the comparison in doubt. The comparison with κορώνη (korṓnē, “anything curved”) is also suspect.^[1]

κῠρτός • (kŭrtós) m (feminine κῠρτή, neuter κῠρτόν); first/second declension

1. bulging, swelling
2. arched, vaulted
3. humped, hunchbacked, gibbous

   Synonym: ὑβός (hubós)

4. convex, outcurved

   Antonym: κοῖλος (koîlos)

• Greek: κυρτός (kyrtós)

• “κυρτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κυρτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κυρτός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κυρτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κυρτός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κυρτός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

κυρτός • (kyrtós) m (feminine κυρτή, neuter κυρτό)

1. convex

• κοίλος (koílos, “concave”)

• Translingual: Cyrtandra