κίκιννος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée is probably right in assuming a prenalized form *κίγκιννος (*kínkinnos) as a source for Latin cincinnus. A Pre-Greek origin must be assumed.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κῐ́κῐννος • (kíkinnos) m (genitive κῐκῐ́ννου); second declension

  1. lock of curly hair.
  2. ringlet.

Declension
Second declension of ὁ κῐ́κῐννος; τοῦ κῐκῐ́ννου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κῐ́κῐννος
ho kíkinnos		 τὼ κῐκῐ́ννω
tṑ kikínnō		 οἱ κῐ́κῐννοι
hoi kíkinnoi
Genitive τοῦ κῐκῐ́ννου
toû kikínnou		 τοῖν κῐκῐ́ννοιν
toîn kikínnoin		 τῶν κῐκῐ́ννων
tôn kikínnōn
Dative τῷ κῐκῐ́ννῳ
tôi kikínnōi		 τοῖν κῐκῐ́ννοιν
toîn kikínnoin		 τοῖς κῐκῐ́ννοις
toîs kikínnois
Accusative τὸν κῐ́κῐννον
tòn kíkinnon		 τὼ κῐκῐ́ννω
tṑ kikínnō		 τοὺς κῐκῐ́ννους
toùs kikínnous
Vocative κῐ́κῐννε
kíkinne		 κῐκῐ́ννω
kikínnō		 κῐ́κῐννοι
kíkinnoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Further reading
  • κίκιννος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κίκιννος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • 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
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