Ancient Greek

Noun

κόϊξ • ‎(kóïx) m ‎(genitive κόϊκος); third declension

1. doum palm, Hyphaene thebaica
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 1.10.5
2. basket made from palm leaves
   • 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Collected Works 78
   • 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 63
   • 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 113

Inflection

doum palm

Related terms

• κοΐκινος ‎(koḯkinos)

Descendants

• Translingual: Coix

References

• κόϊξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 731