κῦρος
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Hellenic *kūrós, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁-ró-s, from *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, be strong”), the same root of κυέω (kuéō, “to be pregnant”), κῦμα (kûma, “wave”), Sanskrit शवस् (śavas, “strength, power”) and Irish curadh (“hero”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kŷː.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.ros/
Noun[edit]
κῦρος • (kûros) n (genitive κῡ́ρεος); third declension
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κῦρος tò kûros |
τὼ κῡ́ρεε tṑ kū́ree |
τᾰ̀ κῡ́ρεᾰ tà kū́rea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῡ́ρεος toû kū́reos |
τοῖν κῡρέοιν toîn kūréoin |
τῶν κῡρέων tôn kūréōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῡ́ρεῐ̈ tôi kū́reï |
τοῖν κῡρέοιν toîn kūréoin |
τοῖς κῡ́ρεσῐ / κῡ́ρεσῐν toîs kū́resi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κῦρος tò kûros |
τὼ κῡ́ρεε tṑ kū́ree |
τᾰ̀ κῡ́ρεᾰ tà kū́rea | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῦρος kûros |
κῡ́ρεε kū́ree |
κῡ́ρεᾰ kū́rea | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Greek: κύρος (kýros)
Further reading[edit]
- “κῦρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κῦρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κῦρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κῦρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 807
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