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κῆτος
κῆτος
Ancient Greek
Noun
κῆτος • (kêtos) n (genitive κήτους); third declension
Inflection
Third declension of κῆτος, κήτεος (uncontracted)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κῆτος | τὼ κήτεε | τὰ κήτεᾰ |
| Genitive | τοῦ κήτεος | τοῖν κητέοιν | τῶν κητέων |
| Dative | τῷ κήτεϊ | τοῖν κητέοιν | τοῖς κήτεσσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative | τὸ κῆτος | τὼ κήτεε | τὰ κήτεᾰ |
| Vocative | κῆτος | κήτεε | κήτεᾰ |
| Notes: | This inflection pattern originally had a sigma (i.e. *κήτεσος), which was dropped early in the history of Ancient Greek. |
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Third declension of κῆτος, κήτους (contracted)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κῆτος | τὼ κήτει | τὰ κήτη |
| Genitive | τοῦ κήτους | τοῖν κητοῖν | τῶν κητῶν |
| Dative | τῷ κήτει | τοῖν κητοῖν | τοῖς κήτεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative | τὸ κῆτος | τὼ κήτει | τὰ κήτη |
| Vocative | κῆτος | κήτει | κήτη |
| Notes: | The irregular accentuation of this paradigm is explained by the fact that it is the contracted version of the above paradigm. |
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Descendants
References
- κῆτος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κῆτος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κῆτος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «κῆτος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «κῆτος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “G2785”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 974
- 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