καττύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same Pre-Greek root of κασσύω (kassúō, “to stitch, to sew together”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kat.ty̌ːs/ → /katˈtys/ → /kaˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kat.ty̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /katˈtys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /katˈtys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /katˈtys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈtis/

Noun

κᾰττῡ́ς • (kattū́s) f (genitive κᾰττῠ́ος); third declension

1. piece of leather

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κᾰττῡ́ς; τῆς κᾰττῠ́ος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰττῡ́ς hē kattū́s	τὼ κᾰττῠ́ε tṑ kattúe	αἱ κᾰττῠ́ες hai kattúes
Genitive	τῆς κᾰττῠ́ος tês kattúos	τοῖν κᾰττῠ́οιν toîn kattúoin	τῶν κᾰττῠ́ων tôn kattúōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰττῠ́ῐ̈ têi kattúï	τοῖν κᾰττῠ́οιν toîn kattúoin	ταῖς κᾰττῠ́σῐ / κᾰττῠ́σῐν taîs kattúsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰττῡ́ν tḕn kattū́n	τὼ κᾰττῠ́ε tṑ kattúe	τᾱ̀ς κᾰττῦς / κᾰττῠ́ᾰς tā̀s kattûs / kattúas
Vocative	κᾰττῡ́ kattū́	κᾰττῠ́ε kattúe	κᾰττῠ́ες kattúes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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